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A  KEY  TO   THE 

WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

IN    CHRONOLOGICAL    SEQUENCE 
WITH    INDEX    OF    THE     PRINCIPAL    CHARACTERS 


HENRY     GREY 

FR.B.S.,  F.Z.S.,  F.I.INST. 

AUTHOR   OF 

'THE   CLASSICS   FOR   THE   MILLION* 
'  A  BIRD'S-EYE  VIEW  OF   ENGLISH   LITERATURE  ' 

'THE   PLOTS   OF  OLD   ENGLISH   PLAYS' 

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PREFACE 

TFIESE  brief  sketches  of  the  Historical  Novels  by  Sir 
Walter  Scott, — whom  Lord  Meadowbank  eulogised  as 
'The  mighty  magician,  who  has  rolled  back  the  current 
of  time,  and  conjured  up  before  our  living  senses  the 
men  and  manners  of  days  which  have  long  since  passed 
away,' — are  offered  to  the  public  with  the  hope  that, 
to  those  who  have  read  the  Tales  (which  fill  ten 
thousand  closely  printed  pages,  and  extend  over  a 
period  of  more  than  seven  hundred  years),  they  may 
serve  as  a  memento  of  the  principal  scenes  and  char- 
acters ;  and  to  those  who  have  not,  as  an  appetising 
foretaste  of  the  intellectual  feast  in  store  for  them. 


CON  TENTS 

Date  of 

the  Story.  I-AGIC 

1098.  COUNT  ROBERT  OF  PARIS    .                                1 

1187.  THE  BETROTHED  ....                .5 

1191.    THE  TALISMAN 9 

1194.    'IVANHOE 14 

1306.    CASTLE  DANGEROUS 18 

1402.  THE  FAIR  MAID  OF  PERTH                 .        .      22 

1468.     OUENTIN  DURWARD 27 

1474.    ANNE  OF  GEIERSTEIN 31 

1550.  THE  MONASTERY  .                                              35 

1567.  THE  ABBOT    .                        ....      39 

1575.     KENILWORTH  43 

1600.  DEATH  OF  THE  LAIRD'S  JOCK     .        .        .48 

1604.  THE  FORTUNES  OF  NIGEL   .        .        .        .50 

1645.  A  LEGEND  OF  MONTROSE    ....      54 

1652.    WOODSTOCK .58 

1678.  PEVERIL  OF  THE  PEAK  ...      02 

1679.  OLD  MORTALITY 67 

1695.  THE  BRIDE  OF  LAMMERMOOR     ...      71 

1700.    THE  PIRATE 75 

1702.  MY  AUNT  MARGARET'S  MIRROR                        80 


viii  CONTENTS 

Date  of 

the  Story.  PAGE 

1706.    THE  BLACK  DWARF                     ...  82 

1715.     ROB  ROY  86 

1736.    THE  HEART  OF  MID-LOTHIAN                    .  90 

1745.     WAVERLEY     .                                               .  94 

1763.    REDGAUNTLET       .  98 

1765.    GUY  MANNERING  ...                       .  103 

1775.    THE  HIGHLAND  WIDOW       ....  107 

1780.    THE  SURGEON'S  DAUGHTER        .        .        .  109 

1782.    THE  TAPESTRIED  CHAMBER        .        .        .  113 

1795.    THE  Two  DROVERS 115 

1795.    THE  ANTIQUARY 117 

1812.    ST  RONAN'S  WELL 121 

INDEX  OF  THE  PRINCIPAL  CHARACTERS  .  125 


A   KEY  TO  THE 

WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

COUNT  ROBERT  OF  PARIS 


Principal  Characters 


ALEXIUS  COMNENUS,  Greek 
Emperor  of  Constantinople. 

THE  EMPRESS  IRENE,  his 
•wife. 

PRINCESS  ANNA,  their  daughter. 

NICEPHORUS  BRENNIUS,  her 
husband. 

ASTARTE, 


ACHII.LES  TATIUS,  officer  of  the 

Imperial  Varangian  Guard. 
HEREWARD,    an   Anglo-Saxon, 

his  subaltern. 

STEPHANOS  CASTOR,  a  -wrestler. 
LYSIMACHUS,  a  designer. 
HARPAX,  centurion  of  the  city 

guard. 
SEBASTES,     a    recruit    in    the 

corps. 
NICANOR,  commander-in-chiefof 

tlic  Greek  army. 
Zos  I  M  us,  Greek  patriarch. 


MICHAEL  AGELASTES,  an  old 

sage. 

GODFREY  DE  BOUILLON,^ 
PETER  THE  HERMIT, 
COUNT  BALDWIN, 
COUNT  DE  VERMANDOIS, 
BOHEMOND  OF  ANTIOCH, 
PRINCE  TANCRED  OF 

OTRANTO,  s  C 

RAYMOND,     COUNT    OF 

TOULOUSE, 

COUNT  ROBERTOF  PARIS/ 
BKENHILDA,  Countess  of  Paris. 
TOXARTIS,  a  Scythian  chieftain. 
AGATHA,  afterwards  BERTHA, 

Here-ward's  betrothed. 
DIOGENES,  a  negro  slave. 
ZEDEKIAS  URSEL,  a  rival  for 

the  throne. 
DOUBAN,    a    slave    skilled    in 

medicine. 
SYLVAN,  an  ourang-outang. 


Greek  citizens,  courtiers,  military  officers,  seamen,  soldiers,  priests 
and  slaves.     Army  of  Crusaders. 

Period,  1098.     Localities:  Constantinople  and  Scutari. 

EIGHT  hundred  years  ago  Constantinople — then 
as  now  unrivalled  as  regards  the  beauty  of  it? 
situation  on  the  confines  of  Europe  and  Asia — 

A 


2      A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

was  threatened  by  barbarians  from  the  east,  and 
by  the  Franks  from  the  west.  Unable  to  rely  on 
his  Greek  subjects  to  repel  their  incursions,  the 
emperor  was  obliged  to  maintain  a  body-guard  of 
Varangians,  or  mercenaries  from  other  nations,  of 
whom  the  citizens  and  native  soldiers  were  very 
jealous.  One  of  these,  Hereward,  had  just  been 
attacked  by  Sebastes,  when  Tatius  intervened  and 
led  him  to  the  palace.  Here  he  was  introduced  to 
the  imperial  family,  surrounded  by  their  attend- 
ants ;  and  the  Princess  Anna  was  reading  a  roll  of 
history  she  had  written,  when  her  husband  entered 
to  announce  the  approach  of  the  armies  composing 
the  first  Crusade.  Convinced  that  he  was  power- 
less to  prevent  their  advance,  the  emperor  offered 
them  hospitality  on  their  way ;  and,  the  leaders 
having  agreed  to  acknowledge  his  sovereignty,  the 
various  hosts  marched  in  procession  before  his 
assembled  army. 

As  Comnenus,  however,  moved  forward  to  re- 
ceive the  homage  of  Count  Bohemond,  his  vacant 
throne  was  insolently  occupied  by  Count  Robert 
of  Paris,  who  was  with  difficulty  compelled  to 
vacate  it,  and  make  his  submission.  The  defiant 
knight,  accompanied  by  Brenhilda,  afterwards  met 
the  sage  Agelastes,  who  related  the  story  of  an 
enchanted  princess,  and  decoyed  them  to  his  her- 
mitage overlooking  the  Bosphorus.  Here  they 
were  introduced  to  the  empress  and  her  daughter, 
who,  attended  by  Brennius,  came  to  visit  the  sage, 
and  were  invited  to  return  with  them  to  the  palace 
to  be  presented  to  the  emperor.  At  the  State 
banquet  which  followed,  the  guests,  including  Sir 


COUNT  ROBERT  OF   PARIS  3 

Bohemond,  were  pledged  by  their  royal  host,  and 
urged  to  accept  the  golden  cups  they  had  used. 
On  waking  next  morning,  Count  Robert  found 
himself  in  a  dungeon  with  a  tiger,  and  that  Ursel 
was  confined  in  an  adjoining  one.  Presently  an 
ourang-outang  descended  through  a  trap-door, 
and  afterwards  Sebastes,  both  of  whom  the  count 
had  overpowered,  when  Hereward  made  his  ap- 
pearance, and  undertook  to  release  his  Norman 
adversary. 

A  treasonable  conference  was  meanwhile  taking 
place  between  Tatius  and  Agelastes,  who  had 
failed  in  endeavouring  to  tamper  with  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  ;  and  the  countess  had  been  unwillingly 
transported  by  Diogenes  to  a  garden-house  for  a 
secret  interview  with  Brennius,  whom  she  chal- 
lenged to  knightly  combat  in  the  hearing  of  her 
husband.  Having  hidden  the  count,  Hereward 
encountered  his  sweetheart  Bertha,  who  had  fol- 
lowed Brenhilda  as  her  attendant,  and  then  ob- 
tained an  audience  of  the  imperial  family,  who 
were  discussing  recent  events,  including  a  plot  in 
which  Brennius  was  concerned  for  seizing  the 
throne,  and  received  permission  to  communicate 
with  the  Duke  de  Bouillon.  Bertha  volunteered 
to  be  his  messenger,  and,  at  an  interview  with 
the  council  of  Crusaders  at  Scutari,  she  induced 
them  to  promise  that  fifty  knights,  each  with  ten 
followers,  should  attend  the  combat  to  support 
their  champion. 

Having  made  his  confession  to  the  Patriarch, 
while  Agelastes  was  killed  by  Sylvan  as  he  argued 
with  Brenhilda  respecting  the  existence  of  the- 


4     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

devil,  the  emperor  led  his  daughter  to  the  cell  in 
which  Ursel  was  confined,  with  the  intention  of 
making  him  her  husband,  instead  of  Brennius. 
She  had,  however,  been  persuaded  by  her  mother 
to  intercede  for  the  traitor,  and  Ursel  was  merely 
placed  under  the  care  of  Douban  to  be  restored  to 
health  after  his  long  imprisonment.  Alexius  had 
decided  that  Brennius  should  fight  the  Count  of 
Paris,  instead  of  the  countess,  and  all  the  prepara- 
tions for  the  combat  had  been  made,  when  the 
ships  conveying  the  Crusaders  hove  in  sight ;  and, 
after  defeating  the  Greek  fleet,  they  landed  in 
sight  of  the  lists.  Brennius,  in  the  meantime,  was 
pardoned,  and,  in  answer  to  shouts  of  discontent 
from  the  assembled  crowd,  Ursel  was  led  forth  to 
announce  his  restoration  to  liberty  and  the  imperial 
favour,  and  the  conspiracy  was  crushed.  Hereward 
then  appeared  to  do  battle  with  Count  Robert, 
and,  saved  from  the  knight's  axe  by  Bertha,  he 
joined  the  Crusaders,  obtaining  on  his  return  the 
hand  of  his  betrothed,  and,  ultimately,  a  grant  of 
land  from  William  Rufus,  adjacent  to  the  New 
Forest  in  Hampshire,  where  he  had  screened  her 
when  a  girl  from  the  tusk  of  a  wild  boar. 


THE  BETROTHED 


Principal  Characters 


GWENWYN,    Prince  of  Powys- 

land. 

BRENGWAN,  his  -wife. 
FATHER  EINION,  his  chaplain. 
CADWALLON,  his  principal  bard. 
JORWORTH  AP  JEVAN,  a  mes- 
.    senger. 
BALDWIN,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 

bury. 
SIR  RAYMOND  BERENGER,  of 

Garde  Doloureuse. 
His  daughter,  EVELINE. 
His    sister,    A     BENEDICTINE 

ABBESS. 
FATHER  AI.DROVAND,  his  chap- 

lain. 

DENNIS  MOROI.T,  his  squire. 
REINOLD,  his  butler. 
RAOUL  GILLIAN,  his  huntsman. 
DAMP.  GILLIAN,  his  wife. 
SIR  HUGO  DE  LACY,  Constable 


DAMIAN  LACY,  his  nephew. 

RANALD  LACY,  their  kinsman. 

PHILIP  GUARINE,  Sir  Hugo's 
squire. 

AMELOT,  Damian  Lucy's  page. 

RALPH  GENVIL,  his  banner- 
bearer. 

WILLIAM  TF'LfMM.QCK.,  a  Flemish 
weaver. 

His  daughter,  ROSE,  Eveline's 
waiting-  maid. 

ERMINGARDE,  the  Lady  of 
Baldringham . 

BERWINE,  her  housekeeper. 

HUNDWOLF,  her  steward. 

SIR  GUY  MONTHERMER,  in 
command  of  the  King's  troops. 

THE  EARL  OF  GLOUCESTER. 

KING  HENRY  II. 

PRINCE  RICHARD. 

PRINCE  JOHN, 


of  Chester. 

Norman  cavaliers,  M'elsh  borderers,  soldiers,  camp  followers, 
minstrels,  pedlars,  mendicants,  outlaws,  peasants  ;  general 
assembly. 

Period,  1187.     Locality:    Wales. 

THE  archbishop,  as  he  travelled  and  preached 
among  them,  had  exhorted  the  Britons,  and  the 
Anglo-Normans  who  were  settled  on  the  borders 
of  the  Welsh  principalities,  to  lay  aside  their  feuds, 
and  join  in  the  third  Crusade.  Accordingly,  the 
Prince  of  Powys-land  and  the  Knight  of  Garde 

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6      A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

Doloureuse  had  accepted  each  other's  hospitality, 
and  Gwenwyn,  at  the  suggestion  of  his  chaplain, 
had  arranged  to  divorce  his  wife,  in  order  that  he 
might  marry  Sir  Raymond's  daughter.  In  reply 
to  his  proposal,  however,  a  messenger  brought  a 
letter  stating  that  she  was  promised  to  the  Con- 
stable of  Chester,  which  being  taken  by  the  Welsh 
as  an  affront,  the  call  to  war  was  sung  by  the  bards, 
the  Norman  castle  was  attacked,  and  its  owner 
slain  in  a  combat  with  his  would-be  son-in-law. 
Nerved  by  the  presence  of  Eveline  on  the  battle- 
ments, and  supplied  with  food  by  a  ruse  of  her 
father's  vassal  the  Flemish  weaver,  the  garrison, 
assisted  by  the  military  predilections  of  their 
chaplain,  held  out  until  Damian  Lacy  arrived  with 
a  large  force,  when  the  brave  but  unarmoured 
Britons  were  repulsed,  and  their  prince  was  killed. 
Having  granted  an  interview  to  her  deliverer, 
Eveline  was  escorted  by  her  suitor  the  Constable, 
and  a  numerous  retinue,  to  her  aunt's  nunnery. 
On  her  way  thither  she  passed  a  night  at  the  house 
of  a  Saxon  kinswoman,  the  Lady  of  Baldringham, 
where  she  occupied  a  haunted  chamber,  and  saw 
the  ghost  of  an  ancestor's  wife,  who  foretold  that 
she  would  be — 

'  Widowed  wife,  and  married  maid, 
Betrothed,  betrayer,  and  betrayed.' 

During  her  visit  to  the  abbess  she  was  formally 
espoused  to  Sir  Hugo  ;  but  the  archbishop  having 
the  next  day  commanded  him  to  proceed  to 
Palestine  for  three  years,  he  offered  to  annul  their 
engagement.  Eveline,  contrary  to  her  aunt's 


THE   BETROTHED  7 

advice,  promised  to  await  his  return  ;  and  it  was 
arranged  that  she  should  reside  in  her  castle,  with 
Rose  and  Dame  Gillian  as  her  attendants,  and 
Damian  as  her  guardian.  Wearied  with  her 
monotonous  life  during  this  seclusion,  she  was 
induced  one  day  to  join  in  a  hawking  expedition 
unaccompanied  by  her  usual  escort,  and  was  seized 
by  rebels  secretly  instigated  by  Ranald  Lacy.  In 
attempting  to  rescue  her  Damian  was  severely 
wounded,  and  she  insisted  on  nursing  him  in  the 
castle,  while  Amelot  led  his  men-at-arms  in  pursuit 
of  the  outlaws,  whose  disaffection  had  reached  the 
king's  ears,  with  a  rumour  that  Damian  was  their 
captain.  Sir  Guy  Monthermer  was,  accordingly, 
sent  to  demand  admittance  to  Garde  Doloureuse, 
where  he  was  reported  to  be  concealed ;  and  when 
Eveline  ordered  the  portcullis  to  be  dropped 
against  him,  a  herald  proclaimed  her,  and  all  who 
aided  and  abetted  her,  as  traitors. 

The  constable  and  his  squire,  who  were  sup- 
posed to  be  dead,  returned  from  Syria,  disguised 
as  palmers,  just  as  the  royal  troops,  headed  by 
Prince  Richard,  had  occupied  the  castle,  Eveline 
at  the  same  time  being  sent  to  a  convent,  and 
Damian  consigned  to  a  dungeon.  Having  learnt 
the  ill  news  from  old  Raoul  and  his  wife,  Sir  Hugo 
made  his  way  towards  King  Henry's  camp,  near 
which,  surrounded  by  an  assembly  of  spectators, 
Ranald  Lacy,  who  by  fal.se  representations  had 
obtained  a  grant  of  Eveline's  forfeited  lands,  and 
assumed  his  kinsman's  dress  and  title,  was  about 
to  present  a  royal  charter  of  immunities  to  a  pro- 
cession of  the  Flemish  settlers.  Cadwallon,  the 


8      A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

Welsh  bard,  had,  however,  attached  himself  to 
Sir  Hugo  as  a  Breton  minstrel,  in  order  that  he 
might  avenge  the  death  of  Gwenwyn  ;  and  mis- 
taking Ranald  for  the  returned  constable,  suddenly 
sprang  behind  him  as  he  leant  forward  in  his 
saddle,  and  stabbed  him  in  the  back.  Sir  Hugo 
now  made  himself  known,  and  was  welcomed  by 
the  king,  the  assassin  was  executed,  and,  con- 
vinced that  his  betrothed's  love  had  been  given 
to  Damian,  the  old  Crusader  resigned  her  to  him, 
and  consoled  himself  by  taking  part  in  the  sub- 
jugation of  Ireland. 


THE  TALISMAN 


Principal  Characters 


SIR  KENNETH  OF  THE  COUCH- 
ANT  LEOPARD,  Prince  Royal 
of  Scotland. 

STRAUCHAN,  his  squire. 

ILDEKIM  SUEERKOHF,  a  Sara- 
cen Emir. 

THEODORIC  OF  ENGADDI,  a 
Christian  hermit. 

KING  RICHARD  I.,  one  of  the 
Council  of  the  third  Crusade. 

QUEEN  BERENGAKIA,  his  wife. 

LADY  CAUSTA  OF  MOUNT- 
FAUCON,  her  attendant. 

LADY  EDITH  PLANTAGENET, 
Richard's  kinswoman. 

NKCBATANUS,//^  Queen 's dwarf. 

GUENKVRA,  his  lady-love. 


EL  HAKIM,  a  physician;  after- 
wards SULTAN  SALADIN. 

THE     ARCHBISHOP     OF    ^ 
TYKE, 

THE  GRAND-MASTER  OF 
THE  TEMPLARS, 

THE  MARQUIS  CONRADE 
OF  MONTSERRAT, 

THE    ARCHDUKE    LEO- 
POLD OF  AUSTRIA, 

KING  PHILIP  AUGUSTUS)  _ 
OF  FRANCE, 

EARL  WALLENRODE,  an  Hun- 
garian warrior. 

A     MARABOUT,     or     Turkish 
fanatic. 

BLONDEL,  King  Richard's  min- 
strel. 


SIR  THOMAS  DE  MULTON, 

SIR  THOMAS  DE  VAUX  OF    ]-  in  attendance  on  the  King, 

GlLSLAND, 

Choir  of  boys  and  maidens  ;  knights  and  soldiers  of  the  Christian 
and  Mohammedan  armies. 

Period,  1191.     Locality:  Syria. 

DURING  a  truce  between  the  Christian  armies 
taking  part  in  the  third  Crusade,  and  the  infidel 
forces  under  Sultan  Saladin,  Sir  Kenneth,  on  his 
way  to  Syria,  encountered  a  Saracen  Emir,  whom  he 
unhorsed,  and  they  then  rode  together,  discoursing 

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10  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

on  love  and  necromancy,  towards  the  cave  of  the 
hermit,  who  was  in  correspondence  with  the  pope, 
and  to  whom  the  knight  was  charged  to  com- 
municate secret  information.  Having  provided 
the  travellers  with  refreshment,  the  anchorite,  as 
soon  as  the  Saracen  slept,  conducted  his  com- 
panion to  a  chapel,  where  he  witnessed  a  pro- 
cession, and  was  recognised  by  the  Lady  Edith, 
to  whom  he  had  devoted  his  heart  and  sword. 
He  was  then  startled  by  the  sudden  appearance 
of  the  dwarfs,  and,  having  reached  his  couch  again, 
watched  the  hermit  scourging  himself  until  he  fell 
asleep. 

About  the  same  time  Richard  Cceur  de  Lion 
had  succumbed  to  an  attack  of  fever,  and  as  he 
lay  in  his  gorgeous  tent  at  Ascalon,  the  Scot 
arrived  accompanied  by  a  Moorish  physician,  who 
had  cured  his  squire,  and  who  offered  to  restore 
the  king  to  health.  After  a  long  consultation, 
and  eliciting  from  Sir  Kenneth  his  visit  to  the 
chapel,  the  physician  was  admitted  to  the  royal 
presence  ;  and,  having  swallowed  a  draught  which 
he  prepared  from  a  silken  bag  or  talisman,  Richard 
sank  back  on  his  cushions.  While  he  slept  Con- 
rade  of  Montscrrat  secretly  avowed  to  the  wily 
grand-master  his  ambition  to  be  King  of  Jeru- 
salem ;  and,  with  the  object  of  injuring  Richard's 
reputation,  incited  Leopold  of  Austria  to  plant 
his  banner  by  the  side  of  that  of  England  in 
the  centre  of  the  camp.  When  the  king  woke 
the  fever  had  left  him,  and  Conrade  entered  to 
announce  what  the  archduke  had  done.  Spring- 
ing from  his  couch,  Richard  rushed  to  the  spot 


THE  TALISMAN  II 

and  defiantly  tore  down  and  trampled  on  the 
Teuton  pennon.  Philip  of  France  at  length  per- 
suaded him  to  refer  the  matter  to  the  council,  and 
Sir  Kenneth  was  charged  to  watch  the  English 
standard  until  daybreak,  with  a  favourite  hound 
as  his  only  companion.  Soon  after  midnight, 
however,  Necbatanus  approached  him  with  Lady 
Edith's  ring,  as  a  token  that  his  attendance  was 
required  to  decide  a  wager  she  had  with  the 
queen ;  and  during  his  absence  from  his  post 
the  banner  was  carried  off,  and  his  dog  severely 
wounded.  Overcome  with  shame  and  grief,  he 
was  accosted  by  the  physician,  who  dressed  the 
animal's  wound,  and,  having  entrusted  Sir  Ken- 
neth with  Saladin's  desire  to  marry  the  Lady 
Edith,  proposed  that  he  should  seek  the  Saracen 
ruler's  protection  against  the  wrath  of  Richard. 
The  valiant  Scot,  however,  resolved  to  confront 
the  king  and  reveal  the  Sultan's  purpose  ;  but  it 
availed  him  not,  and  he  was  sentenced  to  death, 
in  spite  of  the  intercessions  of  the  queen  and 
his  lady -love;  when  the  hermit,  and  then  the 
physician,  arrived,  and  Richard  having  yielded  to 
their  entreaties,  Sir  Kenneth  was  simply  forbidden 
to  appear  before  him  again. 

Having,  by  a  bold  speech,  revived  the  drooping 
hopes  of  his  brother  Crusaders,  and  reproved  the 
queen  and  his  kinswoman  for  tampering  with  the 
Scot,  Richard  received  him,  disguised  as  a  Nubian 
slave,  as  a  present  from  Saladin,  with  whom  he 
had  been  induced  to  spend  several  days.  Shortly 
afterwards,  as  the  king  was  reposing  in  his  pavilion, 
the  slave  saved  his  life  from  the  dagger  of  an 


12     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

assassin  secretly  employed  by  the  grand-master, 
and  intimated  that  he  could  discover  the  purloiner 
of  the  standard.  A  procession  of  the  Christian 
armies  and  their  leaders  had  already  been  ar- 
ranged in  token  of  amity  to  Richard ;  and  as 
they  marched  past  him,  seated  on  horseback,  with 
the  slave  holding  the  hound  among  his  attendants, 
the  dog  suddenly  sprang  at  the  Marquis  Conrade, 
who  was  thus  convicted  of  having  injured  the 
animal,  and  betrayed  his  guilt  by  exclaiming,  '  I 
never  touched  the  banner.'  Not  being  permitted 
to  fight  the  Teuton  himself,  the  king  undertook 
to  provide  a  champion,  and  Saladin  to  make  all 
needful  preparations  for  the  combat.  Accompanied 
by  Berengaria  and  Lady  Edith,  Richard  was  met 
by  the  Saracen  with  a  brilliant  retinue,  and  dis- 
covered, in  the  person  of  his  entertainer,  the 
physician  who  had  cured  his  fever,  and  saved 
Sir  Kenneth,  whom  he  found  prepared  to  do 
battle  for  him  on  the  morrow,  with  the  hermit 
as  his  confessor.  The  encounter  took  place  soon 
after  sunrise,  in  the  presence  of  the  assembled 
hosts,  and  Conrade,  who  was  wounded  and  un- 
horsed, was  tended  by  the  Sultan  in  the  grand- 
master's tent,  while  the  victorious  knight  was 
unarmed  by  the  royal  ladies,  and  made  known 
by  Richard  as  the  Prince  Royal  of  Scotland.  At 
noon  the  Sultan  welcomed  his  guests  to  a  banquet, 
but,  as  the  grand-master  was  raising  a  goblet  to 
his  lips,  Necbatanus  uttered  the  words  accipe  Jioc, 
and  Saladin  decapitated  the  templar  with  his 
sabre ;  on  which  the  dwarf  explained  that,  hidden 
behind  a  curtain,  he  had  seen  him  stab  his 


THE   TALISMAN  13 

accomplice  the  Marquis  of  Montserrat,  obviously 
to  prevent  him  from  revealing  their  infamous 
plots,  while  he  answered  his  appeal  for  mercy 
in  the  words  he  had  repeated.  The  next  day 
the  young  prince  was  married  to  Lady  Edith, 
and  presented  by  the  Sultan  with  his  talisman, 
the  Crusade  was  abandoned,  and  Richard,  on  his 
way  homewards,  was  imprisoned  by  the  Austrians 
in  the  Tyrol. 


/  VANHOE 


Principal  Characters 


CEDRIC  THE  SAXON,  of  Rother- 
ivood  Grange. 

WILFRED  OK  IVANHOE,  his  dis- 
inherited son. 

THE  LADY  ROVVENA,  his  ward, 
beloved  by  Jvanhoe. 

GURTH,  his  swineherd. 

WAMBA,  his  jester. 

SIR  PHILIP  DE  MALVOISIN,  a 
neighbour, 

THE  PRIOR  OF  AYMER,  Abbot 
ofjourvaulx. 

SIR  BRIAN  DE  Bois  GILBERT, 
a  Norman  knight-templar. 

ISAAC  OF  YORK,  a  Jew  money- 
lender. 

His  daughter,  REBECCA. 

PRINCE  JOHN,  brother  of  Rich- 
ard I. 

ATHELSTANE,  a  Saxon  knight, 
Ivanhoe's  rival. 

Servants,  knights,  and  squires 
Period,  1194.     Localities: 


LOCKSLEY,  alias  ROBIN  HOOD, 

an  outlaid. 
REGINALD  FRONT  DE 

BCEUF, 
RICHARD    DE     MAL- 

VOISIN, 
HUGH     DE     GRANT- 

MESNEL, 

RALPH  DE  VIPONT, 
MAURICE  DE  BRACY, 
FRIAR  TUCK,  of  CopmanJntrst. 
DAME  ULRICA,  of  Torquilstone. 
KING    RICHARD    I.,    returned 
from  the  third  Crusade. 


master  of  the  Templars. 

CONRADE    DE     MALVOISIN,    his 

attendant  knight. 
HiGG,  a  Saxon  peasant, 


at  a  tournament,  Saxon  outlaws. 
Yorkshire  and  Leicestershire. 


THE  Anglo-Saxons  had  not  yet  overcome  their 
antipathy  to  their  Norman  conquerors ;  and  when 
the  prior  and  Sir  Brian,  with  a  pilgrim  as  their 
guide,  sought  the  hospitality  of  Rotherwood  on 
their  way  to  a  tournament,  they  were  received 
with  haughty  dignity.  At  the  evening  meal 
Lady  Rowena  was  inquiring  the  latest  news  from 


IVAN  HOE  15 

Palestine,  whither  her  lover  had  gone,  and  Isaac 
had  craved  shelter  from  the  stormy  night,  when 
Cedric  elicited  that  Ivanhoe  had  gained  as  much 
renown  as  any  of  King  Richard's  Norman  knights, 
and  Sir  Brian  offered  to  fight  him ;  on  which  the 
pilgrim  exclaimed,  '  I'll  be  his  surety,'  and  Lady 
Rowena  gaged  her  honour  on  his  behalf.  The 
Jew  was  conducted  by  Wamba  to  his  cell,  and 
during  the  night,  with  Gurth's  assistance,  he  and 
the  pilgrim  started  for  Ashby,  near  which  town 
rich  and  poor  were  assembling  to  witness  a 
passage  of  arms  between  several  knights-templar, 
led  by  Sir  Brian,  in  the  presence  of  Prince  John. 
The  champions  entered  the  lists  attended  by  pur- 
suivants and  heralds,  and,  after  several  encounters, 
the  conquerors  challenged  any  other  knights 
present  to  meet  them,  when  one  in  sable  armour, 
with  the  word  '  disinherited '  on  his  shield,  defied 
Sir  Brian.  At  the  second  charge  the  Norman 
was  unhorsed ;  and,  having  with  equal  prowess 
disposed  of  four  other  antagonists,  the  unknown 
victor  exercised  his  privilege  by  naming  Lady 
Rowena  as  the  queen  of  the  day. 

Isaac  had  provided  him  with  a  horse  and 
armour,  and  Gurth  was  now  sent  to  pay  him 
for  them  with  the  money  with  which  the  van- 
quished knights  had  redeemed  theirs.  In  the 
next  day's  sports  Ivanhoe  was  recognised  by  his 
father  and  Lady  Rowena,  and,  having  received 
a  wound,  was  taken  charge  of  by  the  Jew  and 
his  daughter,  the  chief  honours  being  awarded 
to  Locksley  and  another  knight  in  black  armour. 
The  latter,  however,  disappeared,  and  made  his 


1 6     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEV  NOVELS 

way  to  the  hermitage  of  Friar  Tuck,  a  disguised 
bandit.  Meanwhile,  Cedric  and  his  ward,  as  well 
as  Isaac,  Rebecca  and  Ivanhoe,  had  been  seized 
in  the  adjacent  forest  by  Front  de  Bceuf  and  his 
followers,  dressed  as  outlaws,  and  carried  to  the 
castle  of  Torquilstone,  where  De  Bracy  and  Sir 
Brian  demanded  the  hands  of  their  female  cap- 
tives, and  the  Jew  was  threatened  with  torture 
unless  he  agreed  to  pay  a  heavy  ransom.  Rebecca 
was  about  to  throw  herself  from  a  window,  when 
the  sound  of  a  bugle  announced  the  arrival  of 
Locksley  and  his  followers,  accompanied  by  the 
black  knight.  Having  escaped  from  Sir  Brian, 
the  Jewess  found  Ivanhoe  in  an  adjoining  room, 
and  with  him  watched  the  attack  on  the  castle. 
After  a  desperate  struggle  the  defenders  were 
overpowered,  the  prisoners  released,  and  the 
stronghold  set  on  fire.  Having  thanked  their 
preservers,  Cedric  and  Rowena  returned  home, 
leaving  Wamba  to  attend  the  black  knight;  and 
the  Jew  went  in  search  of  his  daughter,  who  had 
been  carried  off  by  Sir  Brian,  bearing  a  letter  to 
him  from  Prior  Aylmer,  who  had  also  been  con- 
fined in  the  castle,  intimating  that  he  had  better 
give  her  up. 

The  following  morning  Prince  John,  who  hoped 
to  usurp  the  throne,  received  intelligence  that  his 
brother  was  in  England ;  and,  the  prior's  letter 
having  fallen  into  the  hands  of  the  grand-master, 
preparations  were  made  for  the  trial  of  Rebecca 
as  a  witch.  The  peasant  Higg  was  unwillingly 
brought  forward  to  prove  that  she  had  cured 
him  of  a  sore  disease,  and  other  witnesses  falsely 


IVANIIOE  17 

deposed  to  acts  of  sorcery  which  she  had  prac- 
tised. She,  however,  claimed  trial  by  combat, 
and  was  allowed  to  send  a  messenger  to  her 
father.  The  same  evening  the  black  knight  was 
attacked  in  the  forest  by  several  armed  men,  and, 
just  as  he  was  unhorsed,  Locksley  with  a  band 
of  yeomen  came  to  his  rescue.  Ivanhoe  also 
rode  up,  and  having  done  homage  to  him  as 
King  Richard,  announced  Rebecca's  need  of  a 
champion. 

The  bell  was  tolling  at  the  castle  occupied  by 
the  knights-templar,  the  fagots  were  ready,  and 
the  lists  prepared  for  her  doom  or  rescue,  the 
grand-master  was  seated  on  his  throne,  and  Sir 
Brian  had  whispered  her  to  escape  with  him,  when 
a  mounted  knight  was  seen  advancing.  A  herald 
demanded  his  name,  and  he  answered  '  Wilfred  of 
Ivanhoe';  the  trumpets  sounded  the  charge,  and 
although  the  Saxon's  horse  fell,  the  templar  rolled 
from  his  saddle,  and  on  his  helmet  being  raised 
he  was  dead.  The  silence  of  the  spectators  was 
broken  by  the  arrival  of  the  king,  at  whose  com- 
mand Conrade  de  Malvoison  was  arrested  for  high 
treason,  and  the  grand-master,  having  threatened 
to  appeal  to  Rome,  withdrew  with  his  knights  and 
followers  ;  Rebecca  at  the  same  time  leading  her 
father  away  lest  Richard  should  incarcerate  him 
in  order  to  obtain  a  loan,  and  fearful  also  of 
betraying  her  secret  love  for  her  deliverer.  The 
nuptials  of  Ivanhoe  and  Rowena  quickly  followed  ; 
and,  having  presented  the  bride  with  a  casket  of 
jewels  of  immense  value,  the  Jew  and  his  daughter 
quitted  England  to  take  up  their  abode  at  Granada. 

B 


CASTLE  DANGEROUS 


Principal  Characters 


SISTER  URSULA  ;  afterwards 
LADY  MARGARET  DE  HAUT- 

VILLE. 

SIR  MALCOLM  FLEMING,  her 
lover. 

MICHAEL  TURNBULL,  a  border 
foi  ester. 

LAZARUS  TOWHEID,  sexton  of 
Douglas  Kirk. 

THE  KNIGHT  OF  THE  TOMBS  ; 
afterwards  SIR  JAMES  DOUG- 
LAS. 

THE  BISHOP  OK  GLASGOW. 

THE  EARL  OF  PEMBROKE. 


BERTRAM,  an  English  minstrel. 

AUGUSTINE,  his  supposed  son  ; 
afterwards  LADY  AUGUSTA 
of  Berkely. 

TOM  DICKSON  OF  HAZELWOOD, 
a  vassal  of  the  Douglas  estate. 

His  son,  CHARLES. 

SIR  JOHN  DE  WALTON,  Gover- 
nor of  Castle  Douglas. 

SIR  AYMER  DE  VALENCE,  De- 
puty Governor. 

FABIAN  HARBOTHEL,/«'.T  squire. 

GILBERT  GREENLEAF,  an  old 
archer. 

ABBOT  JEROME,  of  St  Bride's 
convent. 

English  soldiers,  squires  and  pages,  inhabitants  of  Douglas, 
Scottish  knights  and  fighting  men. 

Period,  1306.     Localities:  Ayrshire  and  Lanarkshire. 

DURING  the  struggle  for  the  Scottish  crown 
between  Edward  I.  and  Robert  Bruce,  the  strong- 
hold of  his  adherent  Sir  James  Douglas,  known 
as  Castle  Dangerous,  had  been  taken  by  the 
English,  and  Lady  Augusta  had  promised  her 
hand  and  fortune  to  Sir  John  de  Walton,  on 
condition  that  he  held  it  for  a  year  and  a  day. 
Anxious  to  curtail  this  period,  she  determined  to 
make  her  way  thither,  accompanied  by  her  father's 
minstrel,  disguised  as  his  son,  and  they  were 

18 


CASTLE   DANGEROUS  19 

within  three  miles  of  their  destination,  when 
fatigue  compelled  them  to  seek  shelter  at  Dick- 
son's  farm.  Two  English  archers,  who  were 
quartered  there,  insisted  that  the  youth  should 
be  left  at  the  neighbouring  convent  of  St  Bride's, 
until  Bertram  satisfied  Sir  John  as  to  the  object 
of  their  journey,  and  this  arrangement  was  ap- 
proved of  by  Sir  Aymer,  who  arrived  to  visit  the 
outpost.  As  they  proceeded  together  towards  the 
castle,  the  minstrel  entertained  the  young  knight 
with  some  curious  legends  respecting  it,  including 
the  supernatural  preservation  of  an  ancient  lay 
relating  to  the  house  of  Douglas,  and  the  future 
fate  of  the  British  kingdom  generally.  De  Valance 
would  at  once  have  passed  the  stranger  into  the 
stronghold  as  a  visitor ;  but  Gilbert  Greenleaf  de- 
tained him  in  the  guard  room  until  the  arrival  of 
the  governor,  who,  in  the  hearing  of  Fabian,  ex- 
pressed his  disapproval  of  his  deputy's  imprud- 
ence, and  thus  the  seeds  of  disagreement  were 
sown  between  them. 

Sir  John,  however,  wished  to  be  indulgent  to  his 
young  officers,  and  accordingly  arranged  a  hunt- 
ing party,  in  which  the  Scottish  vassals  in  the 
neighbourhood  \vcre  invited  to  join ;  but,  at  the 
mid-day  repast,  Turnbull  behaved  so  rudely  to 
the  governor  that  he  ordered  him  to  be  secured, 
when  he  suddenly  plunged  into  a  ravine  and  dis- 
appeared. The  young  knight  took  fresh  offence 
at  being  ordered  to  withdraw  the  archers  from  the 
sport  to  reinforce  the  garrison,  and  appealed  to 
his  uncle,  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  who,  instead  of 
taking  his  part,  wrote  him  a  sharp  reproof.  He 


2O  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

then  opposed  the  governor's  wish  that  the  minstrel 
should  terminate  his  visit,  which  induced  Sir  John 
to  threaten  Bertram  with  torture  unless  he  instantly 
revealed  his  purpose  in  coming  to  the  castle.  The 
minstrel  declined  to  do  so  without  his  son's  per- 
mission ;  and,  the  Abbot  having  pleaded  for  delay 
on  account  of  the  boy's  delicate  health,  Sir  Aymer 
was  ordered  to  meet  a  detachment  at  an  outpost, 
and  then  to  bring  him  to  the  castle  to  be  examined. 
As  he  passed  through  the  town  he  encountered  a 
mounted  warrior  in  full  armour,  whom  neither  the 
inhabitants  nor  his  followers  would  admit  having 
seen.  The  old  sexton,  however,  declared  that  the 
spirits  of  the  deceased  knights  of  Douglas  could 
not  rest  in  their  graves  while  the  English  were  at 
enmity  with  their  descendants.  On  reaching  the 
convent,  De  Valence  roused  Father  Jerome,  and 
insisted  that  the  youth  should  at  once  accompany 
him.  He  was,  however,  allowed  to  return  to  his 
bed  till  daybreak,  and  upon  the  door  of  his  room 
being  then  forced  open,  it  was  empty.  During  the 
night,  Sister  Ursula,  who  had  hidden  in  the  room, 
elicited  Lady  Augusta's  secret,  which  she  had 
already  guessed,  and,  having  narrated  the  circum- 
stances under  which  she  had  entered  the  convent 
without  taking  the  vows,  they  escaped  through  a 
concealed  postern  and  found  a  guide  with  horses 
waiting  for  them.  A  scroll  which  his  lady-love 
had  left  behind  her  explained  matters  to  Sir  John, 
who,  in  his  despair,  was  comforted  by  the  sym- 
pathy of  his  lieutenant  ;  and  the  faithful  minstrel, 
having  been  admitted  to  their  confidence,  steps 
were  at  once  taken  to  track  the  fugitives. 


CASTLE   DANGEROUS  21 

Having  reached  a  thicket,  Lady  Margaret  dis- 
appeared to  join  her  friends,  and  Lady  Augusta 
was  escorted,  first  by  the  celebrated  Douglas,  and 
then  by  Turnbull,  to  a  spot  where  they  met  Sir 
John,  to  whom  the  forester  delivered  a  message 
with  which  he  refused  to  comply,  and  mortally 
wounded  the  man  when  he  attempted  to  lead  the 
lady  away.  But  Sir  James  was  at  hand,  and  the 
two  knights  fought  until  summoned  by  the  church 
bells  to  Palm  Sunday  service,  at  which  the  old 
bishop  officiated  in  the  presence  of  an  excited 
assemblage  of  armed  English  and  Scotch  warriors 
eager  to  attack  each  other.  Bertram  met  Lady 
Augusta  in  the  churchyard,  and  was  arranging  for 
her  safety,  when  De  Walton  and  The  Douglas 
renewed  their  combat,  and  an  encounter  also  took 
place  between  De  Valence  and  Sir  Malcolm 
Fleming.  The  life  of  the  latter  was  saved  by 
the  intercession  of  Lady  Margaret,  and  Sir  John 
surrendered  his  sword  and  governorship  on  the 
arrival  of  a  messenger  with  the  intelligence  that 
an  English  force,  commanded  by  the  Earl  of 
Pembroke,  which  was  advancing  to  prevent  an 
anticipated  attack  on  the  castle,  had  been  utterly 
defeated  by  Bruce  and  his  followers.  He  and  his 
troops,  however,  were  allowed  to  retire  with  their 
arms,  Sir  James  having  chivalrously  transferred 
his  claim  upon  her  lover  to  the  Lady  Berkely, 
who,  in  return  for  his  courtesy,  decorated  the 
brave  Scotchman  with  a  chain  of  brilliants  which 
had  been  won  in  battle  by  her  ancestor. 


THE  FAIR  MAID  OF  PERTH 


Principal  Characters 


OLD  SIMON,  a  glover  in  the 
Couvrefeu,  Perth. 

His  daughter,  CATHARINE. 

His  apprentice,  CONACHAR  ; 
afterwards  EACHIN  M'lAN, 
Chief  of  the  Clan  Quhele. 

HENRY  Go\v,  an  armourer  and 
burgess  of  Perth. 

FATHER  FRANCIS,  a  Dominican 
monk. 

FATHER  CLEMENT,  a  Car- 
thusian monk. 

OLIVER  PROUDFUTE,  a  bonnet- 
maker. 

BAILIE  CRAIGDALLIE. 

HENBANE  DWINING,  an  apothe- 
cary. 

SIR  PATRICK  CHARTKRIS,  of 
A'i » fauns,  Provost  of  Perth. 

KIT  HENSHAW,  his  servant. 

THE  DEVIL'S  DICK,  of  Hell- 
gaith,  a  follower  of  The 
Douglas. 

PRIOR  ANSLEM,  of  St  Dominic 's 
Convent. 

Midnight  revellers,  neighbours,  council  of  citizens,  men-at-arms, 
Highlanders,  morrice  dancers,  funeral  procession  on  Loch 
Tay,  pages,  servants,  rival  clansmen,  inhabitants  of  Perth. 

Period,  1402.     Locality:  Perthshire. 

THE  armourer  had  excited  the  jealousy  of  Conachar 
by  spending  the  evening  with  the  glover  and  his 
daughter,  and  was  returning  to  their  house  at 


KING  ROBERT  III. 

DAVID,  DUKE  OF  ROTHSAY, 
his  son. 

THE  DUKE  OF  ALBANY,  the 
king's  brother. 

THE  EARL  OF  MARCH. 

LOUISE,  a  minstrel  from  Pro- 
vence. 

ARCHIBALD,  EARLOF  DOUGLAS. 

SIR  JOHN  RAMORNY,//^/;-?'//^'^ 
master  of  the  horse. 

EVICT,  his  page. 

ANTHONY  BONTHRON,  an  as- 
sassin. 

SIR  Louis  LUNDEN,  town-clerk 
of  Perth. 

LINDSEY,  EARL  OF  CRAWFORD. 

THE  EARL  OF  ERROL,  Lord 
High  Constable. 

TOROUIL  OF  THE  OAK,  Fachins 
foster  father. 

MAcGiLLiE  CHATTANACH, 
Chkf  of  the  Clan  Chattan. 


THE   FAIR   MAID   OF   PERTH  23 

dawn,  that  he  might  be  the  first  person  she  saw 
on  St  Valentine's  morning,  when  he  encountered 
a  party  of  courtiers  in  the  act  of  placing  a  ladder 
against  her  window.  Having  cut  off  the  hand  of 
one,  and  seized  another,  who,  however,  managed 
to  escape,  he  left  the  neighbours  to  pursue  the  rest, 
and  was  saluted  by  Catharine  as  her  lover.  The 
citizens  waited  on  the  provost,  who,  having  heard 
their  grievance,  issued  a  challenge  of  defiance  to 
the  offenders. 

Meanwhile  the  king,  who  occupied  apartments 
in  the  convent,  had  confessed  to  the  prior,  and 
was  consulting  with  his  brother,  when  the  Earl  of 
March  arrived  to  intimate  his  withdrawal  to  the 
English  Border,  followed  into  the  courtyard  by 
Louise,  and  afterwards  by  the  Duke  of  Rothsay, 
whose  dalliance  with  the  maiden  was  interrupted 
by  the  Earl  of  Douglas  ordering  his  followers  to 
seize  and  scourge  her.  Henry  Gow,  however,  was 
at  hand,  and  the  prince,  having  committed  her  to 
his  protection,  attended  his  father's  council,  at 
which  it  was  determined  that  the  hostile  Clans 
Chattan  and  Quhele  should  be  invited  to  settle 
their  feud  by  a  combat  between  an  equal  number 
of  their  bravest  men  in  the  royal  presence,  and 
a  commission  was  issued  for  the  suppression  of 
heresy.  The  old  monarch,  having  learnt  that  his 
son  was  one  of  those  who  had  attempted  to  force 
their  way  into  the  glover's  house,  insisted  that  he 
should  dismiss  his  master  of  the  horse,  who  en- 
couraged all  his  follies  ;  and  while  Catharine,  who 
had  listened  to  the  Lollard  teaching  of  Father 
Clement,  was  being  urged  by  him  to  favour  the 


24  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

secret  suit  of  the  prince,  her  other  lover,  Conachar, 
who  had  rejoined  his  clan,  appeared  to  carry  off 
her  counsellor  from  arrest  as  an  apostate  reformer. 

The  armourer  had  maimed  Sir  John  Ramorny, 
whose  desire  for  revenge  being  encouraged  by  the 
apothecary,  Bonthron  undertook  to  waylay  and 
murder  him.  On  Shrovetide  evening  old  Simon 
was  visited  by  a  party  of  morrice-dancers,  headed 
by  Proudfute,  who  lingered  behind  to  confirm  a 
rumour  that  Henry  Gow  had  been  seen  escorting 
a  merry  maiden  to  his  house,  and  then  proceeded 
thither  to  apologise  for  having  divulged  the  secret. 
On  his  way  home  in  the  armourer's  coat  and  cap, 
as  a  protection  against  other  revellers,  he  received 
a  blow  from  behind  and  fell  dead  on  the  spot. 
About  the  same  time  Sir  John  was  roused  from 
the  effects  of  a  narcotic  by  the  arrival  of  the  prince, 
who  made  light  of  his  sufferings,  and  whom  he 
horrified  by  suggesting  that  he  should  cause  the 
death  of  his  uncle,  and  seize  his  father's  throne. 

The  fate  of  the  bonnet-maker,  whose  body  was 
at  first  mistaken  for  that  of  the  armourer,  excited 
general  commotion  in  the  city ;  while  Catharine, 
on  hearing  the  news,  rushed  to  her  lover's  house 
and  was  folded  in  his  arms.  Her  father  then 
accompanied  him  to  the  town  council,  where  he 
was  chosen  as  the  widow's  champion,  and  the 
provost  repaired  to  the  king's  presence  to  demand 
a  full  inquiry.  At  a  council  held  the  following 
day,  trial  by  ordeal  of  bier-right,  or  by  combat, 
was  ordered ;  and  suspicion  having  fallen  on 
Ramorny's  household,  each  of  his  servants  was 
required  to  pass  before  the  corpse,  in  the  beliei 


THE   FAIR   MAID   OF   PERTH  25 

that  the  wounds  would  bleed  afresh  as  the  culprit 
approached.  Bonthron,  however,  chose  the  alter- 
native of  combat,  and,  having  been  struck  down 
by  Gow,  was  led  away  to  be  hanged.  But  Dwin- 
ing  had  arranged  that  he  should  be  suspended  so 
that  he  could  breathe,  and  during  the  night  he  and 
Evict  cut  him  down  and  carried  him  off. 

Catharine  had  learnt  that  ehe  and  her  father 
were  both  suspected  by  the  commission ;  and  the 
provost  having  offered  to  place  her  under  the  care 
of  The  Douglas's  daughter,  the  deserted  wife  of 
the  prince,  the  old  glover  sought  the  protection  of 
his  former  apprentice,  who  was  now  the  chieftain 
of  his  clan.  Having  returned  from  his  father's 
funeral,  Conachar  pleaded  for  the  hand  of  Catha- 
rine, without  which  he  felt  he  should  disgrace  him- 
self in  the  approaching  combat  with  the  Clan 
Chattan.  Simon,  however,  reminded  him  that  she 
was  betrothed  to  the  armourer,  and  his  foster 
father  promised  to  screen  him  in  the  conflict.  At 
the  instigation  of  his  uncle,  the  prince  had  been 
committed  to  the  custody  of  the  Earl  of  Errol ; 
but,  with  the  duke's  connivance,  he  was  enticed  by 
Ramorny  and  the  apothecary  to  escape  to  the 
castle  of  Falkland,  and,  with  the  help  of  Bonthron, 
starved  to  death  there.  Catharine  and  Louise, 
however,  discovered  his  fate,  and  communicated 
with  The  Douglas,  who  overpowered  the  garrison, 
and  hung  the  murderers. 

The  meeting  of  the  hostile  champions  had  been 
arranged  with  great  pomp,  and  Henry  Gow,  having 
consented  to  supply  Eachin  with  a  suit  of  armour, 
volunteered  to  take  the  place  of  one  of  the  Clan 


26  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

Chattan  who  failed  to  appear,  A  terrible  conflict 
ensued,  during  which  Torquil  and  his  eight  sons  all 
fell  defending  their  chief,  who  at  last  fled  from  the 
battle-ground  unvvounded  and  dishonoured.  On 
hearing  of  Rothsay's  death,  Robert  III.  resigned 
his  sceptre  to  his  wily  and  ambitious  brother, 
and  died  broken-hearted  when  his  younger  son 
James  was  captured  by  the  English  king.  Albany 
transferred  the  regency  to  his  son ;  but,  nineteen 
years  afterwards,  the  rightful  heir  returned,  and 
the  usurper  expiated  his  own  and  his  father's  guilt 
on  the  scaffold.  The  warrants  against  Simon  and 
his  daughter,  and  Father  Clement,  were  cancelled 
by  the  intervention  of  the  Earl  of  Douglas,  and  the 
Church  was  conciliated  with  Dvvining's  ill-gotten 
wealth.  Conachar  either  became  a  hermit,  or  was 
spirited  away  by  the  fairies ;  and  Scotland  boasts 
of  many  distinguished  descendants  from  Henry 
Govv  and  his  spouse  the  Fair  Maid  of  Perth 


QUENTIN    DURWARD 


Principal  Characters 


QUENTIN  DURWARD,  a  Scotch 
cadet. 

Lunovic  LESLEY,  I.E  BALAFRE, 
fit's  maternal  uncle. 

MAITRE  PIERRE,  a  merchant ; 
afterwards  KING  Louis  XI. 

TRISTAN  L'HERMITE,  his  pro- 
vost-marshal. 

DAME  PERRETTE,  hostess  of 
'  The  Fleur  de  Lys.' 

JACQUELINE,  her  servant;  after- 
wards ISABELLE,  COUNTESS 
OF  CROYE. 

LADY  HAMEI.INE,  her  aunt. 

LORD  CRAWFORD,  commander 
of  Scottish  archers. 

COUNT  DE  DUNOIS,  grand 
huntsman. 

LOUIS,  DUKE  OF  ORLEANS. 

CARDINAL  foiiN  OF  BEI.UF,. 

THE  Bisiior  OK  AUXERRE. 

OLIVER  LE  DAIX,  the  court 
barber. 


PRINCESS  BEAU-!    .,    , .    , 
JEAU,  \thekrnss    • 

PRINCESS  JOAN,   j   *>»8**"*< 

COUNT  PHILIP  CREVECCEUR  OF 
BURGUNDY. 

THE  COUNTESS,  his  wife. 

ToiSON  D'OR,  his  herald. 

WILLIAM  DE  LA  MARCK,  a 
Flemish  outlaw. 

CARL  EBERSON,  his  son. 

HAYRADDIN  MANGRABIN,  a 
Bohemian. 

ZAMET,  his  brother. 

MARTHON,  a  gipsy  woman. 

Louis  OF  BOURBON,  Bishop  of 
Liege. 

PAVII.I.ON,  a  currier  and  syndic. 

His  daughter,  GERTRUDE. 

PETERKIN  GIESLAER,  his  de- 
puty. 

NIKKEI,  BLOK,  a  butcher. 

DUKE  CHARLES  OF  BURGUNDY. 


LE  Gl.ORiEUX,  his  jester. 

Scottish  archers,  peasants,  gipsies,  soldiers,  citizens,  guards,  abbess, 
nuns,  courtiers,  etc. 

Period,  1468.      Localities:  France  and  Flanders, 

THE  age  of  feudalism  and  chivalry  was  passing 
away,  and  the  King  of  France  was  inciting  the 
wealthy  citizens  of  Flanders  against  his  own  re- 
bellious vassal  the  Duke  of  Burgundy.  Ouentin 

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28  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

Durward  had  come  to  Tours,  where  his  uncle  was 
one  of  the  Scottish  body  guard  maintained  by 
Louis  XL,  to  seek  military  service,  and  was  in- 
vited by  the  king,  disguised  as  a  merchant,  to 
breakfast  at  the  inn,  and  supplied  by  him  with 
money.  Having  narrowly  escaped  being  hung 
by  the  provost-marshal  for  cutting  down  Zamet, 
whom  he  found  suspended  to  a  tree,  he  was  en- 
listed by  Lord  Crawford,  and  learned  the  history 
of  Jacqueline.  In  the  presence-chamber  he  was 
recognised  by  Louis,  and  the  royal  party  were  pre- 
paring for  a  hunting  excursion,  when  the  Count  of 
Crevecceur  arrived  with  a  peremptory  demand  for 
the  instant  surrender  of  the  duke's  ward,  the 
Countess  of  Croye,  who  had  fled  from  Burgundy 
with  her  aunt  to  escape  a  forced  marriage ;  and 
proclaimed  that  his  master  renounced  his  allegi- 
ance to  the  crown  of  France.  In  the  chase  which 
followed  Durward  saved  the  king's  life  from  a 
boar,  for  which  service  Louis,  after  consulting  with 
his  barber,  entrusted  him  with  the  duty  of  con- 
ducting the  Countess  and  Lady  Hameline,  osten- 
sibly to  the  protection  of  the  Bishop  of  Liege, 
but  really  that  they  might  fall  into  the  hands  of 
William  de  la  Marck.  After  proceeding  some 
distance  they  were  overtaken  by  Dunois  and  the 
Duke  of  Orleans,  who  would  have  seized  the 
countess,  but  were  prevented  by  Lord  Crawford, 
who  arrived  in  pursuit  and  made  prisoners  of 
them.  Then  Hayraddin  came  riding  after  them, 
and  under  his  guidance  they  journeyed  for  nearly 
a  week,  when  Quentin  discovered  that  the 
Bohemian  was  in  league  with  De  la  Marck. 


QUENTIN   DURWARD  29 

He  accordingly  altered  their  route,  and  they 
reached  the  bishop's  castle  in  safety. 

A  few  days  afterwards,  however,  it  was  assaulted 
by  the  citizens,  and  Hayraddin  having  effected 
Lady  Hameline's  escape  with  Marthon,  Ouentin 
rushed  back  to  save  the  countess,  and,  at  Gieslaer's 
suggestion,  Pavilion  passed  them  as  his  daughter 
and  her  sweetheart  into  the  great  hall  where  the 
outlaw,  who  was  known  as  the  Boar  of  Ardennes, 
was  feasting  with  the  rioters.  The  bishop,  who 
was  also  governor  of  the  city,  was  then  dragged  in, 
and,  having  denounced  his  captor,  was  murdered 
by  a  stroke  of  Nikkei  Blok's  cleaver.  There  was 
a  shout  for  vengeance,  but  De  la  Marck  sum- 
moned his  soldiers,  upon  which  Quentin  held  a 
dirk  at  the  throat  of  his  son  Carl,  and  exhorted 
the  citizens  to  return  to  their  homes.  With  the 
syndic's  help  Lady  Isabella  and  her  protector 
reached  Charleroi,  where  she  was  placed  in  a  con- 
vent, while  he  carried  the  news  to  the  Duke  of 
Burgundy,  at  whose  court  Louis,  with  a  small 
retinue,  was  a  guest.  Charles,  in  a  furious  rage, 
accused  the  king  of  being  privy  to  the  sacrilege, 
and  caused  him  to  be  treated  as  a  prisoner. 

At  a  council  the  following  day  he  was  charged 
with  abetting  rebellion  among  the  vassals  of  Bur- 
gundy, and  the  countess  was  brought  as  a  witness 
against  him.  She  admitted  her  fault,  and  Quentin 
Durward  was  being  questioned  respecting  his 
escort  of  her,  when  a  herald  arrived  with  a  demand 
from  De  la  Marck  to  be  acknowledged  as  Prince- 
Bishop  of  Liege,  and  for  the  release  of  his  ally  the 
King  of  France.  Louis  replied  that  he  intended 


30     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

to  gibbet  the  murderer,  and  the  messenger,  who 
was  discovered  to  be  Hayraddin,  was  sentenced  to 
death,  the  quarrel  between  the  duke  and  the  king 
being  at  the  same  time  adjusted,  on  the  under- 
standing that  the  Duke  of  Orleans  should  marry 
Lady  Isabelle.  Crevecceur,  however,  interceded  for 
her,  and  it  was  arranged  that  whoever  should  bring 
the  head  of  the  Boar  of  Ardennes  might  claim  her 
hand.  Quentin,  who  had  learnt  his  plans  from  the 
Bohemian,  advanced  with  the  allied  troops  of 
France  and  Burgundy  against  his  stronghold,  and 
a  desperate  battle  ensued.  At  length  the  young 
Scot  was  in  the  act  of  closing  with  De  la  Marck, 
when  Pavilion's  daughter  implored  his  protection 
from  a  French  soldier ;  and,  while  placing  her  in 
safety,  his  uncle  La  Balafre  fought  the  ruffian, 
and  carried  his  head  to  the  royal  presence.  Lord 
Crawford  declared  him  to  be  of  gentle  birth,  but 
the  old  soldier  having  resigned  his  pretensions  to 
his  nephew,  King  Louis  vouched  for  Quentin's 
services  and  prudence,  and  the  duke  being  satisfied 
as  to  his  descent,  remarked  that  it  only  remained 
to  inquire  what  were  the  fair  lady's  sentiments 
towards  the  young  emigrant  in  search  of  honour- 
able adventure,  and  who,  by  his  sense,  firmness 
and  gallantry,  thus  became  the  fortunate  possessor 
of  wealth,  rank  and  beauty. 


ANNE  OF  GEIERSTEIN 


Principal  Characters 


JOHN  PHIUPSON,  an  English, 
merchant;  afterwards  EARL 

OK  OXFORD. 

ARTHUR  DE  VERB,  his  son. 

ANTONIO,  their  young  Swiss 
guide. 

ARNOLD  BlEDERMAN,  a  magis- 
trate of  Unterwalden. 

RUDIGER,       "I 

ERNEST,        \his  sons. 

SIUISMUND,  J 

ANNE  OF  GEIERSTEIN,  his  niece. 

ANNETTE  VEILCHEN,  her  at- 
tendant. 

RUDOLPH  OF  DONNERSIIUGEL, 
a  Bernese. 

COUNT  ALBERT  OF  GEIER- 
STEIN, Anne's  father. 

ITAL  SCHRECHWALD,  his 
steward. 

CHARLES  THE  BOLD,  DUKE  OF 
BURGUNDY. 

COUNT       ARCHIBALD        VON 


NICHOLAS  BONSTE- | 

TEEN,  Siviss  de- 

MELCHIOR  STURM-  \  piities  to 
THAI,,  the  duke, 

ADAM  ZIMMERMAN,  j 

DANNLSCHEMEND,  a  Persian 
sorcerer. 

His  daughter,  HERMIONE. 

JAN  MENGS,  landlord  of  the 
'  Golden  Fleece '  in  Rhenish 
Prussia. 

KNIGHTS  AND  BURGHERS  OF 
THE  VEHMIQUE  TRIBUNAL. 

MARGARET  OF  ANJOU,  widoiv 
0/KiNG  HENRY  VI. 

KING  RENE,  of  Provence,  her 
father. 

FERRAND  DE  VAUDEMOND, 
Duke  of  Lorraine,  his  grand- 
son. 

COUNT  CAMTO  BASSO,  com- 
mander of  Italian  mer- 
cenaries. 


IlAGENBACH,  his  steward. 

Swiss  youths  and  mountaineers,  executioner,  citizens  and  soldiers, 
guests  at  inn,  army  at  Dijon,  troubadours  at  Piovencc,  Bur- 
gundian  nobles  and  troops,  Swiss  patriots. 

Period,  1474.     Localities  :  Switzerland,  Germany  and  France. 

As  the  merchant  and  his  son  were  travelling  to- 
wards Basle  they  were  overtaken  by  a  storm,  and 
found  themselves  at  the  edge  of  a  precipice  caused 
by  a  recent  earthquake.  Arthur  was  making  his 

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32     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

way  towards  a  tower  indicated  by  Antonio,  when 
he  was  rescued  from  imminent  danger  by  Anne, 
who  conducted  him  to  her  uncle's  mountain  home, 
whither  his  father  had  been  brought  in  safety  by 
Biederman  and  his  sons.  During  their  evening 
games  Rudolph,  who  had  joined  in  them,  became 
jealous  of  the  young  Englishman's  skill  with  the 
bow,  and  challenged  him  ;  but  they  were  over- 
heard by  Anne,  and  the  duel  was  interrupted. 
The  travellers  were  invited  to  continue  their  journey 
in  company  with  a  deputation  of  Switzers,  com- 
missioned to  remonstrate  with  Charles  the  Bold 
respecting  the  exactions  of  Hagenbach ;  and  the 
magistrates  of  Basle  having  declined  to  let  them 
enter  the  city,  they  took  shelter  in  the  ruins  of  a 
castle.  During  his  share  in  the  night  watches, 
Arthur  fancied  that  he  saw  an  apparition  of  Anne, 
and  was  encouraged  in  his  belief  by  Rudolph,  who 
narrated  her  family  history,  which  implied  that  her 
ancestors  had  dealings  with  supernatural  beings. 
Hoping  to  prevent  a  conflict  on  his  account  between 
the  Swiss  and  the  duke's  steward,  the  merchant 
arranged  that  he  and  his  son  should  precede  them ; 
but  on  reaching  the  Burgundian  citadel  they  were 
imprisoned  by  the  governor  in  separate  dungeons. 
Arthur,  however,  was  released  by  Anne  with  the 
assistance  of  a  priest,  and  his  father  by  Biederman, 
a  body  of  Swiss  youths  having  entered  the  town 
and  incited  the  citizens  to  execute  Hagenbach, 
just  as  he  was  intending  to  slaughter  the  deputa- 
tion, whom  he  had  treacherously  admitted.  A 
valuable  necklace  which  had  been  taken  from  the 
merchant  was  restored  to  him  by  Sigismund,  and 


ANNE  OF  GEIERSTEIN  33 

the  deputies  having  decided  to  persist  in  seeking 
an  interview  with  the  duke,  the  Englishman  under- 
took to  represent  their  cause  favourably  to  him. 

On  their  way  to  Charles's  headquarters  father 
and  son  were  overtaken  by  Anne  disguised  as  a 
lady  of  rank,  and,  acting  on  her  whispered  advice 
to  Arthur,  they  continued  their  journey  by  different 
roads.  The  elder  fell  in  with  a  mysterious  priest 
who  provided  him  with  a  guide  to  the  'Golden 
Fleece,'  where  he  was  lowered  from  his  bedroom 
to  appear  before  a  meeting  of  the  Vehmique  or 
holy  tribunal,  and  warned  against  speaking  of  their 
secret  powers.  The  younger  was  met  and  con- 
ducted by  Annette  to  a  castle,  where  he  spent  the 
evening  with  his  lady-love,  and  travelled  with  her 
the  next  day  to  rejoin  his  father  at  Strassburg. 
In  the  cathedral  there  they  met  Margaret  of  Anjou, 
who  recognised  Philipson  as  the  Earl  of  Oxford, 
a  faithful  adherent  of  the  house  of  Lancaster,  and 
planned  with  him  an  appeal  to  the  duke  for  aid 
against  the  Yorkists.  On  reaching  Charles's  camp 
the  earl  was  welcomed  as  an  old  companion  in 
arms,  and  obtained  a  promise  of  the  help  he  sought, 
on  condition  that  Provence  was  ceded  to  Burgundy. 
Arthur  was  despatched  to  Aix  to  urge  Margaret 
to  persuade  her  father  accordingly,  while  the  earl 
accompanied  his  host  to  an  interview  with  his 
burghers  and  the  Swiss  deputies. 

King  Rene's  preference  for  the  society  of  trou- 
badours and  frivolous  amusements  had  driven  his 
daughter  to  take  refuge  in  a  convent.  On  hear- 
ing from  Arthur,  however,  the  result  of  the  earl's 
mission  to  the  duke,  she  returned  to  the  palace, 

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34  A   KEY  TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

and  had  induced  her  father  to  sign  away  his 
kingdom,  when  his  grandson  Ferrand  arrived 
with  the  news  of  the  rout  of  the  Burgundian 
army  at  Neufchatel,  and  Arthur  learned  from  his 
squire,  Sigismund,  that  he  had  not  seen  Anne's 
spectre  but  herself  during  his  night-watch,  and 
that  the  priest  he  had  met  more  than  once  was 
her  father,  the  Count  Albert  of  Geierstein.  The 
same  evening  Queen  Margaret  died  in  her  chair 
of  state ;  and  all  the  earl's  prospects  for  England 
being  thwarted,  he  occupied  himself  in  arranging  a 
treaty  between  her  father  and  the  King  of  France. 
He  was  still  in  Provence  when  he  was  summoned 
to  rouse  the  duke  from  a  fit  of  melancholy,  caused 
by  the  Switzers  having  again  defeated  him.  After 
raising  fresh  troops,  Charles  decided  to  wrest  Nancy 
from  the  young  Duke  of  Lorraine,  and  during  the 
siege  Arthur  received  another  challenge  from 
Rudolph.  The  rivals  met,  and,  having  killed 
the  Bernese,  the  young  Englishman  obtained 
Count  Albert's  consent  to  his  marriage  with 
Anne,  with  strict  injunctions  to  warn  the  duke 
that  the  Secret  Tribunal  had  decreed  his  death. 
By  the  treachery  of  the  Italians  the  Swiss  were 
enabled  the  same  night  to  gain  another  victory, 
Charles  was  slain,  and  their  independence  was 
established.  Being  still  an  exile,  the  earl  accepted 
the  patriot  Biederman's  invitation  to  reside  with 
his  countess  at  Geierstein,  until  the  battle  of  Bos- 
worth  placed  Henry  VII.  on  the  throne,  when 
Arthur  and  his  wife  attracted  as  much  admiration 
at  the  English  Court  as  they  had  gained  among 
their  Swiss  neighbours. 


THE  MONASTERY 


Principal  Characters 


WIDOW  EI.SPETH  BRYDONE 
C-I.ENDINMNG,  of  Glcudearg. 

HALUERT, 

EDWARD, 

CAPTAIN  STAWARTH  BOLTON, 
in  co  >n  viand  of  English 
dragoons. 

BRITTSON,  his  sergeant. 

WIDOW  ALICE  AVENEL,  of  Esk- 
dale. 

Her  daughter,  MARY. 

JULIAN  AVENEL,  her  brother- 
in-law. 

MARTIN  TACKET,  a  shepherd. 

TIBB,  his  wife. 


THE  LORD  ABBOT  BONIFACE, 
of  St  J\fiiry' 's  Monasteiy, 

FATHER  I'HILIP,  the  sacristan. 

FATHER  EUSTACE,  the  snl>- 
prior. 

CHRISTIE  OF  THE  CLINTIIII.L, 
a  freebooter. 

IlAPPER,  the  miller. 

His  daughter,  MYSIE. 

SIR  PIERCIE  SHAFTON,  an 
English  courtier. 

REV.  HENRY  WARDEN,  a  Pro- 
testant preacher. 

THE  EARL  OF  MURRAY,  Regent 
of  Scotland. 

LORD  MORTON. 


Spectre  of  the  White  Lady  of  Avenel,  monks  of  St  Marys,  vassals 
and  neighbours,  inhabitants  of  the  village  of  Kennaquhair, 
English  and  Scottish  soldiers. 

Period,  1550.     Locality  ;  Melrose  on  the  Tweed  and  neighbourhood. 

IN  the  many  conflicts  between  England  and  Scot- 
land the  property  of  the  Church  had  hitherto 
always  been  respected  ;  but  her  temporal  pos- 
sessions, as  well  as  her  spiritual  influence,  were 
now  in  serious  danger  from  the  spread  of  the 
doctrines  of  the  Reformation,  and  the  occupants 
of  the  monasteries  were  dependent  on  the  military 
services  of  their  tenants  and  vassals  for  protec- 
tion against  the  forays  of  Protestant  barons  and 
other  heretical  marauders.  Dame  Elspeth's  htis- 

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36  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

band  had  fallen  in  the  battle  of  Pinkie,  and  the 
hospitality  of  her  lonely  tower  had  been  sought 
by  the  widow  of  the  Baron  of  Avenel  and  her 
daughter,  whose  mansion  had  been  seized  and 
plundered  by  invaders,  and  subsequently  taken 
possession  of  by  her  brother-in-law.  While  con- 
fessing the  baroness  on  her  death  -  bed,  Father 
Philip  discovered  that  she  possessed  a  Bible,  and 
as  he  was  carrying  it  to  the  Lord  Abbot,  it  was, 
he  declared,  taken  from  him  by  a  spectral  White 
Lady.  Disbelieving  the  sacristan's  tale,  the  sub- 
prior  visited  the  tower,  where  he  met  Christie  of 
the  Clinthill,  charged  with  an  insolent  message 
from  Julian  Avenel,  and  learnt  that  the  Bible 
had  been  mysteriously  returned  to  its  owner. 
Having  exchanged  it  for  a  missal,  he  was  un- 
horsed on  his  return  by  the  apparition  ;  and,  on 
reaching  the  monastery,  the  book  had  disappeared 
from  his  bosom,  and  he  found  the  freebooter  de- 
tained in  custody  on  suspicion  of  having  killed  him. 
The  White  Lady  was  next  seen  by  Halbert,  who 
was  conducted  by  her  to  a  fairy  grotto,  where  he 
was  allowed  to  snatch  the  Bible  from  a  flaming  altar. 
During  his  absence  from  the  tower  the  miller 
and  his  daughter  arrived  on  a  visit,  and  soon  after- 
wards Sir  Picrcic,  as  a  refugee  from  the  English 
Court.  The  next  day  the  abbot  came  to  dine  with 
them,  and  offered  Halbert,  who  had  quarrelled 
with  the  knight  for  his  attentions  to  Mary,  the 
office  of  ranger  of  the  Church  forests.  lie,  how- 
ever, refused  it,  and  startled  his  rival  with  a  token 
lie  had  obtained  from  the  mysterious  spectre.  The 
following  morning  they  fought  in  a  glen,  and 


THE   MONASTERY  37 

Halbcrt  fled  to  the  Baron  of  Avcnel,  leaving  Sir 
Piercie  apparently  mortally  wounded.  His  com- 
panion thither  was  Henry  Warden,  who  offended 
the  laird,  and  assisted  Halbert  in  his  determina- 
tion to  escape  from  the  castle,  rather  than  serve 
under  his  host's  standard.  The  knight,  however, 
had  miraculously  recovered,  and  on  making  his 
way  back  to  the  tower,  was  accused  by  Edward 
of  having  murdered  his  missing  brother,  in  spite 
of  his  assurance  that  the  youth  was  alive  and 
uninjured.  With  the  sub-prior's  approval  he  was 
treated  as  a  prisoner ;  but  during  the  night  Mysie 
assisted  him  to  escape,  and  accompanied  him 
northwards,  dressed  as  his  page.  Mary  Avenel, 
meanwhile,  in  the  midst  of  her  grief  at  the  sup- 
posed death  of  her  lover,  was  visited  by  the  White 
Lady,  who  comforted  her  by  disclosing  the  place 
where  he  had  hidden  the  Bible,  which  she  had 
secretly  read  with  her  mother. 

The  rest  of  the  family  were  astounded  by  the 
arrival  of  Christie,  who  confirmed  Sir  Piercie's 
assertion,  and  announced  that  he  had  brought 
Henry  Warden  to  be  dealt  with  as  a  heretic  by 
the  lord  abbot.  But  the  preacher  and  Father 
Eustace  had  been  intimate  friends  at  college,  and 
the  sub-prior  was  urging  him  to  save  his  life  by 
returning  to  the  bosom  of  the  Church,  when 
Edward  interrupted  them  to  confess  his  jealousy 
of  his  brother,  and  his  resolution  to  become  a 
monk,  in  obedience  to  the  White  Lady  who  had 
appeared  to  him.  Father  Eustace  then  decided 
to  leave  his  prisoner  at  the  tower,  under  promise 
to  surrender  when  summoned  to  the  monastery ; 


38  A    KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

and,  having  learnt  from  the  freebooter  that  Julian 
Avenel  would  fight  for  the  Church,  despatched  him 
in  search  of  Sir  Piercie  and  the  miller's  daughter. 
That  same  night  the  lord  abbot,  alarmed  by 
intelligence  that  English  and  Scottish  soldiers 
were  advancing  with  hostile  intentions  against  the 
monastery,  resigned  his  office  to  the  sub-prior. 
Having  taken  the  road  to  Edinburgh,  Halbert 
had  joined  a  squadron  commanded  by  the  Earl 
of  Murray,  who  sent  him  forward  to  prevent  an 
engagement  between  the  English,  under  Sir  John 
Forster,  and  the  supporters  of  the  Church,  under 
the  Baron  of  Avenel.  He  arrived  too  late,  but 
the  earl  induced  Sir  John,  who  had  won  the  battle, 
to  withdraw,  and  marched  his  troops  to  St  Mary's. 
Here  the  new  abbot  had  assembled  his  brother- 
hood in  the  village,  in  anticipation  of  the  de- 
struction of  their  home.  The  regent  and  his 
followers  formed  up  facing  them,  and  the  first 
matter  settled  was  the  marriage  of  Halbert  with 
the  heiress  of  Avenel.  Father  Eustace  was  then 
summoned  to  produce  Sir  Piercie,  who  surrendered 
voluntarily,  and  a  flaw  in  his  pedigree  having 
been  proved,  Mysie  was  declared  a  fitting  wife 
for  him,  and  they  were  shipped  off  to  Flanders. 
The  monks,  at  the  intercession  of  Henry  Warden, 
were  allowed  to  retain  their  monastery  and  lands 
on  condition  of  being  laid  under  contribution ; 
while  Edward,  who  had  sought  another  interview 
with  the  White  Spirit,  was  told  that  the  knot  of 
fate  was  tied,  and  impressed  with  the  belief  that 
the  marriage  of  his  brother  with  Mary  Avenel 
might  prove  fatal  to  both  of  them. 


THE    ABBOT 


Principal  Characters 


SIR  HAI.UERT  GLENDINNING, 
of  Avcncl  Castle,  a  Puritan. 

LADY  GLENDINNING,  his  wife, 

ROLAND  GR/EME,  her  page; 
afterwards  HEIR  OF  AVENEL. 

MAGDALEN  GR/EME,  his  grand- 
mother, 

REV.  HENRY  WARDEN,  a 
Puritan  preacher. 

FATHER  AMBROSE  (Edward 
Glendinning),  Abbot  of  St 
Mary's. 

ADAM  WOODCOCK,  Sir  Hal- 
berfs  falconer. 

LORD  SEYTON,  an  adherent  of 
Afary  Queen  of  Scots. 

His  son,  HENRY  SEYTON. 

His  daughter,  CATHERINE. 


THE  EARL  OF  MURRAY,  Regent 

of  Scotland. 

LORD  RUTHVEN,  \  T    j    t 
LORD  LINDESAY,    I  tfT  °ft 

SlRROBERTMEL-f  *  7 

VILLE,  )  CoU"Cil' 

SIR   WILLIAM    DOUGLAS,    of 

Lock/even  Castle. 
THE    LADY    OF    LOCHLEVEN, 

his  mother. 

LADY  DOUGLAS,  his  wife. 
GEORGE  DOUGLAS,  their  son. 
DRYFESDALE,  their  steward. 
RANDAL,  their  boatman. 
MARY  QUEEN  OF  SCOTS. 
LADY  FLEMING,  her  attendant. 
REV.     ELIAS   HENDERSON,    a 

Puritan  chaplain. 


TEN  years  had  passed  away,  during  which  Halbert 
had  been  knighted  for  his  services  to  the  regent, 
and  Lady  Avenel  had  adopted  Roland,  whom  her 
dog  had  saved  from  drowning.  The  boy  grew  up 
petted  by  his  mistress,  but  disliked  by  her  chaplain 
and  servants,  and  at  length,  having  threatened  to 
dirk  the  falconer,  he  was  dismissed  to  seek  his 
fortune.  He  had  been  secretly  taught  the  Romish 

39 


40  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

faith  by  Father  Ambrose,  and  led  by  his  grand- 
mother to  believe  that  he  was  of  gentle  birth.  She 
now  introduced  him  to  Catherine  Seyton,  and  then 
accompanied  him  to  the  abbey,  where  the  revels  of 
some  masqueraders  were  interrupted  by  the  arrival 
of  Sir  Halbert  on  his  way  to  Edinburgh,  who 
attached  the  youth  to  his  train.  On  reaching  the 
capital  he  aided  Lord  Seyton  in  a  street  fray,  and 
was  introduced  to  the  Earl  of  Murray,  who  desired 
him  to  be  ready  to  travel  at  short  notice.  In 
company  with  Adam  Woodcock  he  adjourned  to 
an  inn,  and  was  entrusted  by  Henry  Seyton  (whom 
he  believed  to  be  Catherine  in  male  attire)  with  a 
sword,  which  he  was  not  to  unsheath  until  com- 
manded by  his  rightful  sovereign.  He  then  learnt 
that  he  was  to  be  attached  to  the  household  of 
Queen  Mary,  and  accompanied  Lord  Lindesay  to 
the  castle  of  Lochleven,  situated  on  an  island, 
where  he  found  Catherine  in  attendance  on  her, 
and  was  present  when,  in  compliance  with  a  note 
contained  in  his  sword-sheath,  she  signed  her 
abdication  at  the  behest  of  the  Secret  Council. 

After  a  lapse  of  several  months,  during  which 
Henderson  attempted  to  convert  him,  Roland 
learnt  from  Catherine  that  Father  Ambrose  had 
been  evicted  from  his  monastery,  and  he  pledged 
himself,  for  her  sake,  to  assist  the  imprisoned 
queen  in  recovering  her  freedom.  A  plan  of 
escape  arranged  by  George  Douglas  having  failed 
through  the  vigilance  of  the  Lady  of  Lochleven, 
Roland  undertook  to  forge  a  false  set  of  keys,  and 
the  abbot  arrived  disguised  as  a  man-at-arms  sent 
by  Sir  William  to  take  part  in  guarding  the  castle. 


THE   ABBOT  41 

As  soon  as  the  curfew  had  tolled,  a  preconcerted 
signal  was  made  from  the  shore,  and  Roland  con- 
trived to  substitute  his  forged  keys  for  the  real 
ones.  At  midnight  the  garden  gate  was  unlocked, 
a  boat  was  in  waiting,  Henry  Seyton  came  forward, 
and  the  queen,  with  all  her  adherents,  was  safely 
afloat,  when  the  alarm  was  given.  Roland,  how- 
ever, had  run  back,  ere  they  started,  to  turn  the 
locks  on  their  jailers,  and,  until  they  were  out  of 
reach  of  musketry,  George  Douglas  protected 
Mary  by  placing  himself  before  her.  On  landing, 
horses  were  in  readiness,  and  before  daybreak  they 
reached  Lord  Seyton's  castle  in  West  Lothian, 
which  was  strongly  garrisoned.  The  next  morn- 
ing, as  the  queen  was  endeavouring  to  make  peace 
between  Roland  and  Henry  Seyton,  who  treated 
the  page  as  a  churl,  his  grandmother  emerged 
from  a  recess  and  declared  him  to  be  the  son  of 
Julian  Avenel,  who  was  killed  in  the  battle  with 
Sir  John  Foster ;  Lord  Seyton  also  recognised 
him,  and  insisted  that  his  son  should  shake  hands 
with  him. 

Supported  by  a  considerable  number  of  ad- 
herents in  battle  array,  and  accompanied  by  the 
abbot,  the  royal  party  moved  onwards  for  Dum- 
barton, where  help  from  France  was  expected. 
They  were,  however,  intercepted  by  the  regent's 
forces,  and  a  desperate  battle  ensued.  The  queen 
stood  near  a  yew  tree,  guarded  by  her  devoted 
admirer  George  Douglas  in  close  armour,  while 
her  page  pushed  forward  to  watch  the  conflict.  It 
had  lasted  nearly  an  hour,  when  Sir  Halbert 
attacked  the  flank  of  Mary's  supporters,  and  they 


42  A    KEY    TO    THE    WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

were  completely  routed,  Henry  Seyton  was  killed, 
and  Douglas,  who  was  mortally  wounded,  expired 
without  withdrawing  his  eyes  from  her  face. 
Hopeless  of  further  aid,  the  queen  adopted  the 
fatal  resolution  of  trusting  to  Elizabeth's  mercy, 
and,  having  bid  adieu  to  her  followers,  took  ship 
for  England.  Roland  soon  afterwards  succeeded 
in  obtaining  proofs  of  his  claim  as  the  heir  of 
Avenel,  and  was  married  to  Catherine  on  her 
return  from  two  years  residence  with  her  unhappy 
mistress. 


KEN IL  WORTH 


Principal  Characters 


DOCTOR  DouooiiiK,  alias  ALAS- 
CO,  an  astrologer. 

SIR  HUGH  ROHSART,  of  Lidcote 
Hall,  Devonshire, 

His  daughter ;  AMY. 

JANET  FOSTER,  her  attendant  at 
Cumnor. 

QUEEN   ELIZABETH,  at  Kenil- 
worlh. 

LORD  IIuNSDON, 

LORD  I5URLEIGH, 

SIR    WALTER 
RALEIGH, 


In  attend- 
>  ance  on  Her 
\  Majesty. 


GILES    GOSLING,    host   of    the 

'  Black  BessJ  at  Ciimnor. 
MICHAEL     LAMHOURNE,      his 

nephew. 
MASTER  TRESSILIAN,  a  Cornish 

gentleman,  Amy's  lover. 
WAVLAND  SMITH,  his  servant. 
DUDLEY,  EARL  OF  LEICESTER. 
RICHARD  VARNEY,  his  squire. 
ANTHONY   FOSTER,  steward  of 

Cum  nor  Place. 
MASTER  ERASMUS  HOLIDAY,  a 

village  pedagogue. 
DICKIE    SLUDGE,   alias   FLIB- 
BERTIGIBBET,    one     of     his 

pupils. 

Villagers  and  travellers  at  the  inn,  people  on  their  way  to  the  revels 
at  Ketiilwoi'th,  servants,  etc. 

Period,  1575.     Localities:  Oxfordshire  and  Warwickshire, 

THE  innkeeper  had  just  welcomed  his  scape-grace 
nephew  on  his  return  from  Flanders,  and  invited 
Tressilian  and  other  guests  to  drink  with  them, 
when  Lambourne  made  a  wager  he  would  obtain 
an  introduction  to  a  young  lady  under  Foster's 
charge  at  the  Hall,  and  the  Cornish  stranger 
begged  permission  to  accompany  him.  On  arriv- 
ing there  Tressilian  found  his  lady-love,  whom  he 
would  have  carried  back  to  her  home,  but  she 
refused  ;  and  as  he  was  leaving  he  encountered 

43 


44  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

Varney,  whose  life  he  might  have  taken  had  not 
Lambourne  intervened.  Amy  was  soothed  in  her 
seclusion  by  costly  presents  from  the  earl,  and 
during  his  next  visit  she  pleaded  that  she  might 
inform  her  father  of  their  secret  marriage,  but  he 
was  afraid  of  Elizabeth's  resentment.  Warned  by 
his  host  against  the  squire,  and  having  confided  to 
him  how  Amy  had  been  entrapped,  Tressilian  left 
Cumnor  by  night,  and,  after  several  adventures 
by  the  way,  reached  the  residence  of  Sir  Hugh 
Robsart,  to  assist  him  in  laying  his  daughter's 
case  before  the  queen.  Returning  to  London,  his 
servant,  Wayland  Smith,  cured  the  Earl  of  Sussex 
of  a  dangerous  illness,  on  hearing  of  which  from 
Walter  Raleigh,  Elizabeth  at  once  set  out  to  visit 
Leicester's  rival,  by  whom  the  petition,  in  Amy's 
behalf,  was  handed  to  her.  Varney  was  accord- 
ingly summoned  to  the  royal  presence,  when  he 
boldly  declared  that  Amy  was  his  wife,  and 
Leicester  was  restored  to  the  queen's  favour. 

Tressilian's  servant  then  gained  access  to  the 
countess  as  a  pedlar,  and,  having  hinted  that 
Elizabeth  would  shortly  marry  the  earl,  sold  her 
a  cure  for  the  heartache,  warning  Janet  at  the 
same  time  against  an  attempt  to  poison  her 
mistress.  Meanwhile  Leicester  was  preparing  to 
entertain  the  queen  at  Kenilworth,  where  she  had 
commanded  that  Amy  should  be  introduced  to 
her,  and  Varney  was,  accordingly,  despatched  with 
a  letter  begging  the  countess  to  appear  at  the 
revels  as  his  bride.  Having  indignantly  refused 
to  do  so,  and  recovered  from  the  effects  of  a 
cordial  which  had  been  prepared  for  her  by 


KENILWORTH  45 

Alasco,  she  escnped,  with  the  help  of  her  maid, 
from  Cumnor,  and  started  for  Kenilworth,  escorted 
by  Wayland  Smith.  Travelling  thither  as  brother 
and  sister,  they  joined  a  party  of  mummers,  and 
then,  to  avoid  the  crowd  of  people  thronging  the 
principal  approaches,  proceeded  by  circuitous  by- 
paths to  the  castle.  Having,  with  Dickie's  help, 
passed  into  the  courtyard,  they  were  shown  into 
a  room,  where  Amy  was  waiting  while  her  atten- 
dant carried  a  note  to  the  earl,  when  she  was 
startled  by  the  entrance  of  her  lover,  whom  she 
entreated  not  to  interfere  until  after  the  expira- 
tion of  twenty-four  hours.  On  entering  the  park, 
Elizabeth  was  received  by  her  favourite  attended 
by  a  numerous  cavalcade  bearing  waxen  torches, 
and  a  variety  of  entertainments  followed.  During 
the  evening  she  enquired  for  Varney's  wife,  and 
was  told  she  was  too  ill  to  be  present,  when 
Tressilian  offered  to  lose  his  head  if  within 
twenty-four  hours  he  did  not  prove  the  statement 
to  be  false,  notwithstanding  which  the  ostensible 
bridegroom  was  knighted  by  the  queen. 

Receiving  no  reply  to  her  note,  which  Wayland 
had  lost,  Amy  found  her  way  the  next  morning  to 
a  grotto  in  the  gardens,  where  she  was  discovered 
by  Elizabeth,  who  had  just  told  her  host  that  'she 
must  be  the  wife  and  mother  of  England  alone.' 
Falling  on  her  knees  the  countess  besought  protec- 
tion against  Varncy,  who  she  declared  was  not  her 
husband,  and  added  that  the  Earl  of  Leicester 
knew  all.  He  was  instantly  summoned  to  the 
royal  presence,  and  would  have  been  committed 
to  the  Tower,  had  not  Amy  recalled  her  words, 


46  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

when  she  was  consigned  to  Lord  Hundson's  care 
as  bereft  of  her  reason,  Varney  coming  forward 
and  pretending  that  she  had  just  escaped  from 
special  treatment.  Leicester  insisted  on  an  inter- 
view with  her,  when  she  implored  him  to  confess 
their  marriage  to  Elizabeth,  and  then,  with  a 
broken  heart,  she  would  not  long  darken  his 
brighter  prospects.  Varney,  however,  succeeded 
in  persuading  him  that  Amy  had  acted  in  con- 
nivance with  her  lover,  and  in  obtaining  medical 
sanction  for  her  custody  as  mentally  disordered, 
asking  only  for  the  earl's  signet-ring  as  his 
authority.  The  next  day  a  duel  between  Tres- 
silian  and  the  earl  was  interrupted  by  Dickie,  who 
produced  the  countess's  note,  and,  convinced  of 
her  innocence,  Leicester  confessed  that  she  was 
his  wife.  With  the  queen's  permission  he  at  once 
deputed  his  rival  and  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  to 
proceed  to  Cumnor,  whither  he  had  already  de- 
spatched Lambourne,  to  stay  his  squire's  further 
proceedings. 

Varney,  however,  had  shot  the  messenger  on 
receiving  his  instructions,  and  had  caused  Amy 
to  be  conducted  by  Foster  to  an  apartment 
reached  by  a  long  flight  of  stairs  and  a  narrow 
wooden  bridge.  The  following  evening  the  tread 
of  a  horse  was  heard  in  the  courtyard,  and  a 
whistle  like  the  earl's  signal,  upon  which  she 
rushed  from  the  room,  and  the  instant  she  stepped 
on  the  bridge,  it  parted  in  the  middle,  and— she 
was  dead.  Her  murderer  poisoned  himself,  and 
the  skeleton  of  his  accomplice  was  found,  many 
years  afterwards,  in  a  cell  where  lie  secreted  his 


KENILWORTH  47 

money.  The  news  of  the  countess's  fate  put  an 
end  to  the  revels  at  Kenilworth,  Leicester  retired 
for  a  time  from  Court,  and  Sir  Hugh  Robsart, 
who  died  very  soon  after  his  daughter,  settled  his 
estate  on  Tressilian. 


DBA  TH  OF  THE  LAIRD'S  JOCK 

Principal  Characters 

JOHN  ARMSTRONG,  the  Laird  of  Mangerto-wn. 

His  SON. 

His  DAUGHTER. 

FOSTER,  an  English  champion. 

Scottish  and  English  Spectators. 
Period,  1600.     Locality;  Liddesdale  in  Roxburghshire, 

ARMSTRONG  had  been  known  during  his  father's 
lifetime  as  the  Laird's  Jock,  or  son  ;  and  being 
possessed  of  great  strength  and  courage,  had  dis- 
tinguished himself  in  the  use  of  a  two-handed 
sword,  bequeathed  to  him  by  a  Saxon  outlaw, 
in  many  of  the  single  combats  which  took  place 
between  the  English  and  Scottish  borderers  during 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 

He  had,  however,  grown  old,  and  was  bed- 
ridden, when  his  only  son  accepted  the  challenge 
of  an  English  champion.  But  his  heart  swelled 
with  joy  at  the  news,  and  having  entrusted  the 
lad  with  his  celebrated  weapon,  he  insisted  on 
being  wrapped  in  plaids  and  carried  to  the  spot 
selected  for  the  encounter,  attended  by  his 
daughter.  II is  followers  gazed  sadly  on  their 
chieftain's  withered  features  and  shrunken  form  ; 
but  when  the  combatants  met,  and  the  English- 


DEATH   OF   THE   LAIRD'S  JOCK  49 

man  brandished  the  sword  over  his  fallen  antagon- 
ist, the  old  laird,  reanimated  for  an  instant  with 
his  former  vigour,  sprang  from  the  rock  on  which 
he  was  seated,  and,  having  uttered  a  cry  like  that 
of  a  dying  lion  rather  than  a  human  being,  sank 
into  the  arms  of  his  clansmen  broken-hearted,  not 
at  the  death  of  his  boy,  but  at  their  wounded 
honour,  and  the  irreparable  loss  of  his  weapon. 


D 


THE  FORTUNES   OF  NIGEL 


Principal  Characters 


DAVID  RAMSAY,  a  watchmaker 
in  Fleet  Street. 

His  daughter,  MARGARET. 

JENKIN  VINCENT,     )  his      ap- 

FRANCIS  TuNSTALL,//mz&V&r. 

GEORGE  HERIOT,  a  goldsmith 
of  Lombard  Street. 

LORD  GLENVARLOCH,  alias 
NIGEL  OLIFAUNT. 

RICHIE  MONOPLIES,  his  ser- 
vant. 

LAURENCE  LINKLATER,  a  yeo- 
man of  the  royal  kitchen. 

JOHN  CHRISTIE,  a  ship  chandler. 

DAME  NELLY,  his  wife. 

BENJAMIN  SUDDLECHOP,  a 
barber  in  Fleet  Street. 

DAME  URSULA,  his  -wife. 

KING  JAMES  I. 

MAXWELL,  his  gentleman  usher. 

STEPHEN,  DUKE  of  BUCKING- 
HAM. 


LORD  DALGARNO,  his  son. 
REGINALD      LOWESTOFFE,     a 

barrister. 
BEAUJEU,    host  of  a  gambling 

tavern. 
SIR  MUNGO  MALLAGROWTHER, 

a  friend  of  NigeF s  father. 
CHARLES,  PRINCE  OF  WALES. 
OLD  TRAPBOIS,  a  lodging-house 

keeper  at  Whitefriars. 
His  daughter,  MARTHA. 
LADY  HEUMIONE  ;  afterwards 

LADY  DALGARNO. 
MONNA  PAULA,  her  servant. 
CAPTAIN   COLEPEPPER,   a  cut- 
throat adventurer. 
HILDEBROD,  a  bailiff. 
THE    GOVERNOR    OF    THE 

TOWER. 

LADY  MANSELL,  Jus  wife. 
ANDREW  SKURLIEWHITTER,  a 

scrivener. 


LORD  HUNTINGLEN. 

Courtiers  and  men  of  fashion,  promenaders  in  the  park,  rangers 
and  keepers,  watermen,  guards,  servants,  etc. 

Period,  1604.     Localities:  London,  Greenwich  and  Enficld  Chase. 

THE  two  apprentices  had  started  off  to  join  in  a 
street  fray,  and  Ileriot  was  gossiping  with  Ramsay, 
when  they  brought  in  Monoplies  with  a  broken 
head  and  very  tattered  garments.  His  wound 
having  been  dressed,  he  explained  that  he  had 

So 


THE   FORTUNES   OF   NIGEL  51 

come  to  London  with  his  master  to  obtain  pay- 
ment of  a  debt  owing  to  him  by  the  king,  and 
had  been  set  upon  as  a  stranger.  Next  morning 
Nigel  received  a  visit,  at  his  lodging  with  the 
chandler  and  his  wife,  from  the  goldsmith,  who 
had  known  his  father,  and,  having  warned  him 
that  his  estate  was  in  danger,  lent  him  money 
to  appear  in  proper  attire  in  Court.  Heriot  pro- 
ceeded to  Whitehall,  and,  having  presented  the 
young  lord's  petition,  James  authorised  him  to 
advance  part  of  the  sum  due,  and  promised  to 
interest  himself  in  his  affairs.  Dining  with  him 
the  same  day  at  the  goldsmith's,  in  company 
with  her  father  and  Sir  Mungo,  Margaret  lost 
her  heart  to  Nigel,  and  employed  Dame  Ursula 
to  ascertain  all  particulars  respecting  him.  On 
being  presented  at  Court  by  Lord  Huntinglen 
he  obtained  an  order  for  payment  of  his  claim, 
and  was  introduced  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
who  announced  himself  as  his  enemy,  and  to 
Lord  Dalgarno,  by  whom  he  was  initiated  in 
all  the  vices  of  the  aristocracy  of  that  period, 
although  warned  by  Richie,  and  by  an  anony- 
mous letter.  Meeting  the  Prince  of  Wales  in  St 
James's  Park,  attended  by  several  courtiers,  Nigel 
learnt  from  their  manner,  as  well  as  from  Sir 
Mungo,  that  he  had  been  ill  spoken  of  to  Charles, 
upon  which  he  challenged  Dalgarno  in  the  pre- 
cincts of  the  Court,  and  was  compelled  to  take 
refuge  in  Whitefriars  to  avoid  arrest. 

Here  he  renewed  his  acquaintance  with  Lowes- 
toffe,  whom  he  had  met  at  Beaujeu's,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  care  of  old  Trapbois  and  his 


52     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

daughter.  On  hearing  of  Nigel's  trouble  Margaret 
sought  an  interview  with  Lady  Hermione,  who 
occupied  a  suite  of  apartments  in  Heriot's  man- 
sion, and,  having  revealed  her  secret,  was  supplied 
with  money  to  help  him,  being  told  at  the  same 
time  by  her  confidant  of  the  ill  usage  she  had 
suffered  from  Lord  Dalgarno.  Vincent,  who  was 
in  love  with  his  master's  daughter,  and  had  been 
encouraged  by  Dame  Ursula  in  extravagant  habits, 
was  now  engaged  by  her  to  act  as  his  rival's  guide 
in  effecting  his  escape  from  London.  The  same 
night  old  Trapbois  was  murdered  by  two  ruffians 
who  came  to  rob  him  ;  and,  just  as  he  had  rescued 
the  daughter,  whom  Hildebrod  had  advised  him 
to  marry,  Nigel  was  accosted  by  the  apprentice, 
dressed  as  a  waterman,  from  whom  he  learnt  that 
a  warrant  had  been  issued  for  his  apprehension, 
and  that  a  boat  was  in  readiness  for  him  to  give 
the  king's  officers  the  slip.  Martha  begged  that 
she  might  accompany  him,  and,  having  secured 
her  father's  treasure,  they  were  conducted  by  Vin- 
cent to  the  Temple  Stairs.  Having  landed  his 
companion  at  Paul's  Wharf,  where  she  was  taken 
charge  of  by  Monoplies,  Nigel  insisted  on  disem- 
barking at  Greenwich,  instead  of  joining  a  Scotch 
vessel  which  was  waiting  for  him  at  Gravesend ; 
and  having  made  his  way  to  the  park,  he  attended 
the  king  while  he  killed  a  deer,  when  he  was  recog- 
nised and  consigned  to  the  Tower. 

Presently  Margaret,  dressed  as  a  boy,  was  shown 
into  the  same  room  ;  then  the  chandler  came  to 
claim  his  wife,  whom  he  accused  Nigel  of  having 
carried  off;  and,  after  he  had  dined,  his  friend 


THE   FORTUNES   OF   NIGEL  53 

Heriot  arrived  to  reproach  him  with  the  position 
in  which  he  had  placed  himself.  He  had  also  lost 
the  king's  warrant  for  his  debt,  and  when  his 
companion's  disguise  was  detected,  she  saved  him 
from  further  embarrassment  by  a  full  confession. 
One  of  her  acts  had  been  to  present  a  petition  to 
the  king  from  Lady  Hermione,  on  reading  which 
he  had  commanded  that  Lord  Dalgarno  should 
instantly  marry  her  ;  and  another  to  offer  such 
explanations  respecting  Nigel  as  induced  his 
Majesty  to  pardon  him.  One  hour  only,  however, 
remained  within  which  to  redeem  his  estates,  when 
Monoplies  appeared  with  the  money,  and  Lord 
Dalgarno,  who  hoped  to  have  secured  them,  was 
deprived  of  his  revenge.  The  next  day  he  was 
shot  in  Enfield  Chase,  where  Captain  Colepepper 
had  planned  to  waylay  him,  as  he  was  waiting, 
in  company  with  Dame  Nelly,  and  a  page  in 
charge  of  the  treasure,  to  fight  a  duel  with  Nigel. 
Vincent  and  Lowestoffe,  however,  arrived  in  time 
to  put  two  of  the  robbers  to  flight,  while  Monoplies 
killed  the  captain,  who  was  suspected  of  having 
murdered  Trapbois,  and  Christie  recovered  his 
wife.  Nigel  and  Margaret  were  soon  afterwards 
married  ;  and  as  King  James  was  honouring  the 
feast  with  his  presence,  Richie  presented  Martha 
as  his  bride,  who,  at  the  same  time,  handed  to 
the  preserver  of  her  life  the  deeds  of  the  Glcn- 
varloch  estates,  which  she  had  freed  from  all 
liabilities,  and  the  royal  sign-manual  which  had 
been  found  among  her  father's  papers. 


A    LEGEND    OF  MONTROSE 


Principal  Characters 


EVAN  DHU,  a  Highland  chief- 
tain. 

SIR  DUNCAN  CAMPBELL,  of 
Ardenvohr,  a  Covenanter. 

ANNOT  LYLE,  a  harpist ;  after- 
wards his  daughter. 

MACCALLUM  MORE,  MARQUIS 
OF  ARGYLE. 

RANALD  MACEAGH,  a  son  of 
the  Mist. 

K  E  N  N  ET  H ,  h  is  grandson. 

MAcIl.iniY,  chieftain  of  the 
Camerons. 


THE  YOUNG  EARL  OF  MEN- 
TEITH. 

ANDERSON,  his  servant;  after- 
wards THE  EARL  OF  MON- 
TROSE. 

SIR  DUGALD  DALGETTY,  of 
Drumth  wacket . 

ANGUS  MACAULAY,  laird  of 
Kintail. 

His  brother,  ALLAN. 

SIR   MILES  MUL-  \  r      .     , 

GRAVE,  I     G™St*°f 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  (  , ,  "^lls, 
TT  \J\IacAitlay. 

11  ALL,  / 

THE  CHILDREN  OF  THE  MIST, 
freebooters. 

Highland  chieftains  and  clansmen,  women  and  children  ; 
Royalist  army,  Highland  army. 

Period,  1645.      Local  Hies:    Various  parts  of  Scotland. 

TllE  Civil  War  between  Charles  I.  and  his  Parlia- 
ment was  raging  in  England ;  and,  as  the  Earl  of 
Menteith  was  on  his  way  to  a  political  gathering 
at  Darnlinvarach  Castle,  he  met  Dalgetty,  who 
talked  of  his  service  as  a  soldier  of  fortune 
abroad,  and  to  whom  he  offered  quarters  for  the 
night,  with  the  option  of  joining  the  Royalist 
cause  if  he  should  feel  so  inclined.  After  supper 
the  carl  related  to  the  captain  a  story  concerning 
their  guests,  Angus  and  Allan  MacAulay,  whose 
uncle  having  been  murdered  by  a  tribe  of  High- 

54 


A   LEGEND   OF   MONTROSE  55 

landers  called  the  Children  of  the  Mist,  the  shock 
affected  their  mother's  reason,  and  Allan  inherited 
a  gloomy  and  superstitious  temperament,  which 
Annot,  who  had  been  captured  in  one  of  their 
reprisals  against  the  freebooters,  and  adopted  by 
them,  was  in  the  habit  of  soothing  with  her  harp. 
Dugald  decided  to  take  service  on  the  king's  side; 
and  several  chieftains  and  their  followers  having 
assembled  at  the  castle,  the  Earl  of  Montrose, 
throwing  off  his  disguise  as  a  servant,  accepted 
the  command  of  the  forces  to  be  raised  for  the 
service  of  His  Majesty  in  Scotland.  As  he  was 
making  his  arrangements,  Sir  Duncan  Campbell 
arrived  to  demand,  in  the  Marquis  of  Argyle's 
name,  an  explanation  of  the  meeting,  and  the 
captain  was  selected  to  return  with  him  to  In- 
verary  to  propose  a  truce. 

After  a  halt  at  Sir  Duncan's  castle,  Dalgetty 
was  escorted  to  the  stronghold  of  the  Argyles, 
where  he  was  received  as  the  bearer  of  a  traitorous 
message,  and  consigned  to  a  dungeon.  Here  he 
found  Ranald  MacEagh,  and  had  just  learnt  from 
him  that  Sir  Duncan's  daughter,  whom  he  believed 
had  been  murdered,  was  alive,  when  they  were 
interrupted  by  a  stranger,  who  brought  the  captain 
some  refreshment,  and  elicited  from  the  High- 
lander that  she  was  the  little  harpist.  He  then 
made  dishonourable  proposals  to  Dalgetty,  but, 
recognising  him  as  the  marquis,  the  captain 
secured  him,  and  escaped  with  Ranald,  who 
undertook  to  guide  him  safely  back  to  Montrose's 
headquarters.  While  crossing  a  dark  ravine  they 
heard  the  baying  of  a  hound,  and  on  reaching 


56  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

the  summit  of  the  pass,  where  they  were  sur- 
rounded by  the  Children  of  the  Mist,  their  pur- 
suers overtook  them.  Their  first  assailant  was 
transfixed  with  an  arrow,  but  the  captain  was 
wounded,  and  carried  away  insensible  by  the 
Highland  women.  In  two  battles  which  ensued, 
the  Covenanters  were  defeated  by  the  Royalists, 
and  Montrose  was  hesitating  as  to  his  further 
plans,  when  Dalgetty  reappeared  in  his  camp  with 
Ranald.  The  earl  decided  to  avail  himself  of  the 
mountaineer's  knowledge  of  Argyle's  movements, 
but,  remembering  the  MacAulays'  enmity  against 
his  tribe,  he  was  attached  to  the  army  under  an 
assumed  name,  and  as  a  seer.  Annot  had  followed 
her  protectors  in  the  campaign,  but  now  Allan  be- 
came anxious  for  her  safety,  and  possessed  with  a 
foreboding  that  he  was  doomed  to  stab  Menteith. 

After  considerable  manoeuvring  on  both  sides, 
Montrose  was,  at  length,  induced  by  Macllduy  to 
make  a  sudden  advance  against  Argyle,  who 
watched  the  battle  from  the  deck  of  a  galley. 
The  struggle  was  long  and  desperate,  but  the 
Royalists  gained  the  day,  and,  having  been  un- 
horsed by  Ranald,  Sir  Duncan  Campbell  was 
attacker!  by  Allan  MacAulay,  who  would  have 
killed  him  had  not  Dalgetty  interposed.  Mon- 
trose rode  up  in  time  to  prevent  a  further  scuffle, 
and  having  knighted  Sir  Dugald,  despatched  him 
and  his  antagonist  in  opposite  directions.  He 
then  cautioned  the  young  Earl  of  Menteith 
against  his  love  for  Annot,  whom  he  could  not 
marry,  and  that  he  had  a  dangerous  rival.  She 
was  preparing  dressings  for  the  wounded,  when 


A   LEGEND   OF   MONTROSE  57 

Allan  suddenly  entered  the  room,  and,  taxing  her 
with  reciprocating  the  carl's  love,  warned  her  that 
never  was  an  injury  offered  him  for  which  he 
exacted  not  tenfold  vengeance.  Sir  Dugald  now 
fetched  her  to  examine  Sir  Duncan's  wound, 
which  she  pronounced  beyond  her  skill,  when 
MacEagh  begged  that  he  might  be  allowed  an 
interview  with  them,  and  revealed  the  secret  that 
they  were  father  and  daughter.  While  Menteith 
was  collecting  the  proofs  of  his  statements,  Ranald 
sent  for  his  grandson,  Kenneth,  and  despatched 
him  with  the  news  to  MacAulay,  enjoining  the 
lad,  with  his  dying  breath,  to  pursue  the  wild  life 
of  his  forefathers,  to  requite  kindness,  and  avenge 
the  injuries  of  his  race. 

Montrosc  still  advised  his  kinsman  to  abandon 
the  idea  of  making  the  old  knight's  heiress  his 
wife,  but  Sir  Duncan,  having  satisfied  himself  that 
her  happiness  depended  on  it,  consented  that  they 
should  be  married,  on  the  understanding  that  she 
returned  to  his  castle  until  her  husband  could  retire 
with  honour  from  his  military  service.  Everything 
was  arranged  accordingly,  when  Allan  MacAulay 
presented  himself  in  the  ante-room  of  the  chapel, 
and,  having  stabbed  his  rival  in  the  breast,  carried 
the  reeking  dirk  to  the  Marquis  of  Argyle,  and 
was  never  seen  again.  The  earl  recovered  and 
was  united  to  Annot,  and  Sir  Dugald  Dalgetty, 
having  escaped  the  fate  of  his  fellow-prisoners 
after  the  battle  of  Philiphaugh,  consented,  at  the 
expiration  of  his  engagement  with  the  king,  to 
take  service  with  his  enemies,  and  ultimately  re- 
gained his  paternal  estate. 


WOODSTOCK 


Principal  Characters 


COLONEL     DESBO-     Commis- 
ROUGH,  I     sioners 

GENERAL    HARRI-  r     of  the 
SON,  Council 

JOSHUA  BLETSON,   }    of  State. 

JOSEPH  TOMKINS,  their  steward. 

CAPTAIN  ROGER  WILDRAKE, 
of  Sq  uatllesea  •  mere . 

SPITFIRE,  his  page. 

OLIVER  CROMWELL. 

CAPTAIN  PEARSON,  his  aide-de- 
camp. 

Louis  KERNEGUY,  a  page; 
afterwards  KING  CHARLES 
II. 

BEVIS,  a  wolf-dog. 


SIR   HENRY  LEE,  of  Ditchley, 

keeper  of  Woodstock  Park. 
His  son,  ALBERT,    a   Royalist 

colonel. 

His  daughter,  ALICE. 
DK    ANTHONY   ROCHECLIFFE, 

late  rector  of  Woodstock. 
REV.   N  EH  EM  i  AH   HOLD- 
ENOUGH,       a      Presbyterian 

minister. 
COLONEL  MARKHAM  EVERARD, 

a    Roundhead,    Sir    Henry's 

nepheiv. 
JOCELINE  Joi.lFFE,   a  Royalist 

forester,     and     Sir     Henry's 

servant. 
PHCEBE  MAYFLOWER,  hissiveet- 

heart. 

Congregation  in  Woodstock  Church,  officers  and  soldiers  of 

Cromwell's  army,  servants,  etc. 
Period,  1652.      Localities:    Woodstock  in  Oxfordshire,  and  Windsor. 

AT  a  thanksgiving  service  in  Woodstock  church 
for  the  victory  at  Worcester,  the  Rev.  Xehemiah 
Holdenough  was  compelled  to  cede  the  pulpit, 
which  he  had  usurped  from  the  late  rector,  to 
Tomkins,  who,  in  military  attire,  declaimed  against 
monarchy  and  prelacy,  and  announced  the  seques- 
tration of  the  royal  lodge  and  park  by  Crom- 
well and  his  followers.  Proceeding  thither,  he 

58 


WOODSTOCK  59 

encountered  Sir  Henry,  accompanied  by  Alice, 
prepared  to  surrender  his  charge,  and  was  con- 
ducted through  the  principal  apartments  by  Joliffe, 
who  managed  to  send  Phcebe  and  Bevis  with  some 
provisions  to  his  hut,  in  which  the  knight  and 
his  daughter  had  arranged  to  sleep.  On  arriving 
there  they  found  Everard,  who  had  come  to  offer 
them  his  own  and  his  father's  protection  ;  but  Sir 
Henry  abused  and  spurned  him  as  a  rebel,  and 
at  Alice's  entreaty  he  bade  them  farewell,  as  he 
feared,  for  ever.  On  his  way  to  the  lodge  he  met 
his  Royalist  friend,  Wildrake,  whom  he  was  shelter- 
ing in  spite  of  his  politics,  and  determined  to  send 
him  with  an  appeal  to  Cromwell  to  reinstate  his 
uncle  at  Woodstock.  On  reaching  Windsor,  the 
captain,  disguised  as  a  Roundhead,  obtained  an 
interview  with  the  general,  and  a  compliance  with 
Everard's  request,  on  condition  that  he  would  aid 
in  securing  the  murdered  king's  son,  in  the  event 
of  his  seeking  refuge  with  the  Lees. 

Armed  with  the  warrant  of  ejectment,  the  colonel 
and  Wildrake,  accompanied  by  the  mayor  and  the 
minister,  visited  the  Commissioners  during  their 
evening  carouse,  and  took  part  in  endeavouring 
to  ascertain  the  cause  of  some  startling  occur- 
rences by  which  they  had  been  disturbed.  Everard 
made  his  way  alone  to  a  dark  gallery,  in  which  he 
fancied  he  heard  his  cousin's  voice,  and  suddenly 
felt  a  sworcl  at  his  throat.  Meeting  Wildrake  as 
he  regained  the  hall,  they  hurried  off  to  the  hut 
where  they  found  Dr  Rochccliffe  reading  the 
Church  service  to  Sir  Henry  and  his  daughter  ; 
and,  after  a  reconciliation  between  uncle  and 


6o  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

nephew,  the  cousins  were  allowed  a  private  inter- 
view, during  which  Alice  warned  her  lover  against 
betraying  the  king.  Returning  to  the  lodge  they 
were  told  of  other  unaccountable  events ;  and 
during  the  night  Everard  was  ordered  by  an 
apparition  to  change  his  quarters.  The  sentinels 
also  declared  that  they  had  heard  strange  sounds, 
and  the  Commissioners  decided  to  retire  to  the 
village  inn.  Master  Holdenough,  too,  confessed 
that  he  had  been  terribly  shocked  by  the  reflec- 
tion in  a  mirror  of  the  figure  of  a  college  friend 
whom  he  had  seen  drowned. 

The  following  day  the  old  knight  was  induced 
to  resume  his  post,  and  his  son  Albert  arrived 
with  Louis  Kerneguy,  whom  he  introduced  as  his 
Scotch  page.  Sir  Henry  having  no  suspicion  who 
his  guest  really  was  treated  him  without  ceremony; 
and  while  Dr  Rochecliffe  and  the  colonel  were 
planning  for  his  escape  to  Holland,  Charles  amused 
himself  by  endeavouring  to  gain  Alice's  love  ;  but, 
in  spite  of  a  declaration  of  his  rank,  she  made 
him  ashamed  of  his  suit.  A  quarrel,  however, 
having  arisen  between  him  and  Everard,  she 
evinced  her  loyalty  by  preventing  a  duel  they 
had  arranged,  at  the  risk  of  her  reputation  and 
the  loss  of  her  cousin's  affection.  A  similar 
attempt  by  Tomkins  to  trifle  with  Phcebe  was 
punished  by  a  death-blow  from  Joliffe.  The  next 
evening  Everard  and  his  friend,  and  Holdenough, 
were  unexpectedly  made  prisoners  by  Cromwell, 
who,  having  received  intelligence  of  their  know- 
ledge of  the  king's  sojourn  at  Woodstock,  had 
brought  a  large  force  to  secure  him.  Wildrake, 


WOODSTOCK  6 1 

however,  managed  to  send  warning  to  the  lodge 
by  Spitfire,  and  while  Alice  acted  as  Charles's 
guide  to  take  horse,  Albert,  in  his  dress,  concealed 
himself  in  Rosamond's  tower.  Cromwell  and  his 
soldiers  arrived  soon  afterwards  with  Dr  Roche- 
cliffe  and  Joliffe,  whom  they  had  seized  as  they 
were  burying  Tomkins,  and,  having  searched  all 
the  rooms  and  passages  in  vain,  they  proceeded 
to  blow  up  the  tower.  Albert,  however,  leapt 
from  it  just  before  the  explosion,  and  Cromwell 
was  furious  when  he  discovered  the  deception. 
In  his  rage  he  ordered  the  execution  of  the  old 
knight  and  all  his  abettors,  including  his  dog ; 
but  afterwards  released  them,  with  the  exception 
of  Albert,  who  was  imprisoned,  and  subsequently 
fell  in  the  battle  of  Dunkirk.  Alice  returned  in 
safety,  with  the  news  that  the  king  had  effected 
his  escape,  and  a  letter  from  him  to  Sir  Henry, 
approving  of  her  marriage  with  Everard,  whose 
political  opinions  had  been  considerably  influenced 
by  recent  events. 

Eight  years  later  Wildrake  arrived  at  Brussels 
with  a  message  for  Charles  that  his  restoration 
had  been  voted  by  Parliament ;  and  in  his  pro- 
gress to  London,  escorted  by  a  brilliant  retinue, 
amidst  shouts  of  welcome  from  his  assembled 
subjects,  he  dismounted  to  salute  a  family  group 
in  which  the  central  figure  was  the  old  knight 
of  Ditchley,  whose  venerable  features  expressed 
his  appreciation  of  the  happiness  of  once  more 
pressing  his  sovereign's  hand,  and  whose  death 
almost  immediately  followed  the  realisation  of 
his  anxious  and  long-cherished  hopes. 


PEVERIL  OF  THE  PEAK 


Principal  Characters 


FENELLA,  alias  ZARAH,  his 
daughter. 

CHAKLKS  TOPHAM,  officer  of  the 
Black  Rod. 

CHIFFINCH,  alias  WILL  SMITH, 
servant  to  Charles  II. 

MISTRESS  CHIFFINCH. 

VILLIERS,  DUKE  OF  BUCKING- 
HAM. 

JERNINGHAM,  his  secretary. 

KING  CHARLES  II. 

MASTER  MAULSTATUTE,  a  Jus- 
tice. 

SIR  GEOFFREY  HUDSON,  the 
Queen's  Dwarf. 

COLONEL  BLOOD,  an  adventurer. 

THE  DUKE  OF  ORMOND. 


SIR  GEOFFREY  PEVERIL,  of 
Martindale  Castle,  77te  Peak, 
Derbyshire. 

LADY  MARGARET,  his  -wife. 

JULIAN,  their  son. 

LANCE  OUTRAM,  their  game- 
keeper. 

MAJOR  BRIDGENORTH,  ofMotd- 
trassie  Hall,  a  Puritan. 

His  daughter,  ALICE. 

DEBORAH  DEBHITCH,  her  nurse. 

REV.  NEIIEMIAH  SOLSGROVE, 
a  Presbyterian  minister. 

CHARLOTTE,  COUNTESS  OF 
DERBY. 

THE  YOUNG  EARL,  her  son. 

EDWARD  CHRISTIAN,  alias 
RICHARD  GANLESSE,  a  Demp- 
ster of  Man. 

Servants,  innkeepers,  Roundheads,  miners,  watermen,  constables, 
judge  and  jury,  witnesses,  conspirators  and  musicians. 

Period,  1678.     Localities;  Derbyshire,  Isle  of  Man  and  London. 

SIR  GEOFFREY  and  Bridgenorth  had  been  boys 
together ;  and  although  they  adopted  different 
views  in  religion  and  politics,  the  major's  influ- 
ence had  saved  the  Royalist's  life  after  the  battle 
of  Bolton-le-Moor,  and  Lady  Peveril  had  brought 
up  his  motherless  girl  with  her  own  son.  After 
the  Restoration,  the  Countess  of  Derby,  who, 
through  treachery,  had  suffered  a  long  imprison- 

62 


PEVERIL  OF   THE   PEAK  63 

ment  by  the  Roundheads,  sought  protection  at 
Martindale  Castle,  where  Bridgenorth  would  have 
arrested  her  for  having  caused  his  brother-in-law, 
William  Christian,  to  be  shot  as  a  traitor,  had  not 
the  knight  interfered  by  tearing  up  the  warrant, 
and  escorting  her  through  Cheshire  on  her  return 
to  the  Isle  of  Man.  Alice  was  of  course  with- 
drawn from  his  wife's  care,  and  it  was  supposed 
the  major  had  emigrated  to  New  England.  Several 
years  afterwards  Julian  became  the  companion  of 
the  young  earl,  and,  with  Deborah's  connivance, 
renewed  his  intimacy  with  his  foster  sister,  who 
was  under  the  care  of  her  widowed  aunt,  Dame 
Christian.  At  one  of  the  secret  interviews  be- 
tween them,  they  were  surprised  by  the  entrance 
of  her  father,  who  related  some  of  his  religious 
experiences,  and  vaguely  hinted  that  his  consent 
to  their  marriage  was  not  impossible.  The  next 
night,  having  undertaken  to  proceed  to  London, 
to  clear  the  countess  and  her  son  from  the  sus- 
picion of  being  concerned  in  Oates's  pretended 
Popish  plot,  Julian  was  conducted  to  a  sloop  by 
Fenella,  his  patron's  deaf  and  dumb  dwarf,  and, 
as  she  was  being  taken  ashore  against  her  will 
while  he  was  asleep,  he  dreamt  that  he  heard 
Alice's  voice  calling  for  his  help. 

At  Liverpool  he  met  Topham  with  a  warrant 
against  Sir  Geoffrey,  and  on  his  way  to  the  Peak- 
to  warn  him,  he  travelled  with  Edward  Christian, 
passing  as  Ganlesse,  a  priest,  who  led  him  to  an 
inn,  where  they  supped  with  Chiffinch.  On  reach- 
ing Martindale  Castle,  he  found  his  father  and 
mother  in  the  custody  of  Roundheads,  and  he  was 


64          A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

taken  by  Bridgenorth  as  a  prisoner  to  Moultrassie 
Hall,  where  Alice  received  them,  and  he  recog- 
nised Ganlesse  among  a  number  of  Puritan  visitors. 
During  the  night  the  Hall  was  attacked  by  the 
dependents  and  miners  of  the  Peveril  estate,  and, 
having  regained  his  liberty,  Julian  started,  with 
Lance  as  his  servant,  in  search  of  his  parents, 
who  he  ascertained  were  on  their  way  to  London 
in  charge  of  Topham.  At  an  inn  where  they 
halted,  Julian  overheard  Chiffinch  revealing  to  a 
courtier  a  plot  against  Alice,  and  that  he  had 
been  robbed  of  the  papers  entrusted  to  him  by 
the  countess,  which,  however,  he  managed  to 
recover  the  next  morning. 

Meanwhile,  Christian,  under  whose  care  Bridge- 
north  had  placed  his  daughter,  communicated  to 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham  a  design  he  had  formed 
of  introducing  her  to  Charles  II.,  and,  at  an  inter- 
view with  her  father,  endeavoured  to  persuade  him 
to  abandon  the  idea  of  marrying  her  to  young 
Peveril.  Having  reached  London,  Julian  met 
Fenella,  who  led  him  into  St  James's  Park,  where 
she  attracted  the  notice  of  the  king  by  dancing, 
and  he  sent  them  both  to  await  his  return  at 
Chiffinch's  apartments.  Alice  was  already  under 
the  care  of  Mistress  Chiffinch,  and  escaped  from 
an  interview  with  the  duke  to  find  herself  in  the 
presence  of  Charles  and  her  lover,  with  whom, 
after  he  had  placed  the  countess's  papers  in  the 
king's  hands,  she  was  allowed  to  depart.  Julian, 
however,  lost  her  in  a  street  fray,  and  having 
been  committed  to  Newgate  for  wounding  his 
assailant,  he  was  placed  in  the  same  cell  with 


PEVERIL   OF   THE   PEAK  65 

the  queen's  dwarf,  and  conversed  with  an  in- 
visible speaker.  After  startling  Christian  with 
the  news  that  his  niece  had  disappeared,  the 
duke  bribed  Colonel  Blood  to  intercept  his  move- 
ments, so  that  he  might  not  discover  where  she 
was,  and  was  then  himself  astonished  at  finding 
Fenella  instead  of  Alice,  who  had  been  captured 
by  his  servants  in  his  house,  and  at  her  equally 
unexpected  defiance  of  and  escape  from  him. 

A  few  days  afterwards,  Sir  Geoffrey  Peveril,  his 
son  and  the  dwarf  were  tried  for  aiding  and  abet- 
ting Oates's  Plot,  and  were  all  acquitted.  In 
order,  however,  to  avoid  the  mob,  they  took  refuge 
in  a  room,  where  they  encountered  Bridgenorth, 
who  convinced  Julian  that  they  were  in  his  power, 
and  allowed  Christian  to  propose  to  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham  that  several  hundred  Fifth-Monarchy 
men,  led  by  Colonel  Blood,  should  seize  the  king, 
and  proclaim  his  Grace  Lord-Lieutenant  of  the 
kingdom.  The  same  afternoon  Charles  had  just 
granted  an  audience  to  the  Countess  of  Derby, 
when  the  dwarf  emerged  from  a  violoncello  case 
and  revealed  the  conspiracy  which  Fenella  had 
enabled  him  to  overhear.  It  then  transpired  that 
Bridgenorth  had  released  the  Peverils,  and  that 
Christian  had  trained  his  daughter,  whose  real 
name  was  Zarah,  to  feign  being  deaf  and  dumb, 
in  order  that  she  might  act  as  his  spy  ;  but  that 
her  secret  love  for  Julian  had  frustrated  the  execu- 
tion of  his  vengeance  against  the  countess.  He 
was  allowed  to  leave  the  country,  and  the  major, 
who.  on  recovering  Alice  by  Fenella's  aid,  had 
placed  her  under  Lady  Pevcril's  care,  having 

E 


66  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

offered  to  restore  some  of  Sir  Geoffrey's  domains 
which  had  passed  into  his  hands  as  her  dowry, 
the  king's  recommendation  secured  the  old 
knight's  consent  to  the  marriage  which  within  a 
few  weeks  united  the  Martindale  -  Moultrassie 
families  and  estates. 


OLD  MORTALITY 


Principal  Characters 


MR    MORTON,    the    Squire    of 
Milnwood,  a  Presbyterian. 

HKNRY  MORTON,  his  nephew. 

DAME     ALISON    WILSON,    his 
housekeeper. 

LADY  MARGARET  BEI.LENDEN, 
of  Tnllietudlem. 

Her  grand-daughter,  EniTH. 

MAJOR  BELLENDEN,  her  brother- 
in-law,  a  Cavalier. 

GUYDILL,  her  butler. 

JENNY  DKNNISON,  Edith's  maid. 

LORD  EVANDALE. 

LADY  EMILY  HAMILTON,  his 
sister. 

FRANCIS  STEWART,  alias  BOTH 
WELL,    sergeant     of    Claver- 
hoitse's  Life  Guards. 

TAM  HALLIDAY,  his  comrade. 

JOHN  BALFOUR  OF  BURLEY,  a 
Covenanter. 

CORNET  GRAHAM,  a  kinsman 
of  Claverhouse. 


MAUSE      UFADRIGO,      an    old 

fanatic. 

CUDDIE,  her  son,  a  ploughman. 
COLONEL  GRAHAM  OF  CLAVER- 

HOUSE, afterwards  VISCOUNT 

OK  DUNDEE. 
G  A  URIEL  KETTLE-  1    „ 

DRUMLE.POUND-     Covenant 


THE   DUKE    OF    MONMOUTH, 

commander    of    the     English 

army. 
GENERAL  DALZELL,  his  aide-de- 

camp. 

MUCKLEWRAITH,  a  fanatic. 
DUKE  OF  LAUDERDALE,  Presi- 

dent of  Council  at  Edinburgh. 
BASIL    OLIFANT,    a     renegade 

Covenanter. 
BESSIE    MAcCLURE,    a     blind 

widow. 
WITTENBOI.D,     commander     of 

Dutch  Dragoons. 


Army  of  rebel  Whigs,  English  and  Scotch  soldiers,  procession  through 
the  streets  of  Edinburgh,  servants,  etc. 

Period,  1679.     Localities:  Scotland  and  Holland. 

'  OLD  MORTALITY'  was  a  native  of  Dumfries,  who 
devoted  himself,  for  many  years,  to  restoring  the 
gravestones  of  the  Covenanters  who  had  suffered 
during  the  religious  persecutions  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  he  furnished  the  author  with  many  of 
the  incidents  upon  which  this  tale  is  founded. 

67 


68     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

Henry  Morton  had  beaten  Lord  Evandale  in 
shooting  at  the  figure  of  a  bird  called  a  popinjay, 
in  the  presence  of  all  the  aristocracy  of  Lanark- 
shire, and  was  entertaining  his  companions  at  the 
village  inn,  where  Bothwell  and  Ilalliday  insisted 
on  Balfour  toasting  the  archbishop.  Having  done 
so  with  a  qualification,  he  overpowered  the  ser- 
geant in  a  wrestle, 'and  rode  away  with  Morton, 
whose  father's  life  he  had  saved.  Shortly  after- 
wards the  cornet  arrived  with  the  news  that  the 
primate  had  been  murdered,  and  in  search  of  the 
Covenanter,  who,  however,  was  warned  by  Bessie 
MacClure  to  defer  proceeding  on  his  journey,  and 
passed  the  night  in  a  loft  at  Milnwood,  where, 
at  Edith's  request,  Cuddie  and  his  mother  were 
afforded  shelter  from  the  bigotry  of  her  grand- 
mother. Next  day  the  red-coats  came  to  arrest 
Henry  for  sheltering  Balfour,  and  carried  him  to 
Lady  Bellenden's  castle,  to  be  dealt  with  by 
Claverhouse,  who  ordered  him  to  be  shot ;  but 
Edith  entreated  Lord  Evandale's  intercession,  and 
her  lover's  life  was  spared.  Information  had  been 
received  of  a  large  gathering  of  armed  Whigs  in 
the  neighbourhood,  and,  during  a  fierce  encounter 
between  them  and  the  Royalist  troops,  Balfour  shot 
the  cornet,  and  transfixed  Bothwell  with  his  sword, 
upon  which  Claverhouse  charged  the  rebels  and 
unhorsed  the  Covenanter.  The  king's  forces,  how- 
ever, were  compelled  to  retire,  and  Lord  Evandale's 
life  was  saved  by  Morton,  who  took  service  under 
Balfour. 

A  detachment    of  the  insurgents  now  invested 
the  castle  of  Tullictudlem,  while   Henry  marched 


OLD   MORTALITY  69 

\vith  the  main  body  against  Glasgow,  which  the 
Royalists  evacuated  in  order  to  reach  Edinburgh, 
where  the  Duke  of  Monmouth  was  commander-in- 
chief.  Me  managed,  however,  to  get  back  to 
Milnwood,  and,  having  rescued  Lord  Evandale 
from  hanging,  employed  him  to  suppress  a  mutiny 
among  the  troopers  in  the  castle,  and  to  induce 
Major  Bellenden  to  surrender  it,  on  the  promise 
of  a  safe-conduct  in  charge  of  a  petition  to  the 
Government.  While  Balfour  was  making  free 
with  Lady  Bellenden's  property,  Morton  obtained 
a  fruitless  audience  at  the  duke's  camp,  and  re- 
turned to  prepare  the  rebel  army  for  battle,  instead 
of  listening  to  their  Cameronian  preachers.  In  the 
fight  which  ensued,  the  king's  forces  prevailed, 
Balfour  was  disabled,  and  all  Henry's  efforts  to 
rally  the  Covenanters  having  failed,  he  and  his 
servant  Cuddie  escaped  with  their  lives,  and 
reached  a  solitary  farmhouse.  Here  a  party  of 
fanatical  western  Whigs  had  assembled,  and  Morton, 
having  been  denounced  by  Macbriar  and  Muckle- 
wraith  as  a  prelatist,  was  sentenced  to  die  at  mid- 
night. Ere  that  hour  arrived,  however,  Claverhpuse 
and  a  party  of  soldiers  forced  an  entrance,  and  he 
became  their  prisoner.  From  a  window  at  Edin- 
burgh he  witnessed  the  triumphant  entry  of  the 
royal  troops  with  their  prisoners,  preceded  by  the 
civil  authorities,  and  followed  by  an  excited  mob. 
He  was  then  summoned  to  the  council  chamber, 
and,  on  pledging  himself  to  remain  abroad  during 
the  king's  pleasure,  he  was  pardoned,  Claverhouse 
accompanying  him  to  Leith,  where  he  embarked 
for  Holland. 


70  A    KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

Nine  years  afterwards,  on  revisiting  the  old 
neighbourhood,  he  learnt  that  Olifant,  a  discarded 
suitor  for  the  heiress,  was  in  possession  of  the 
Bellenden  estate,  and  that  Edith  was  betrothed  to 
his  rival.  He  was  urging  her  to  consent  to  their 
marriage  before  he  joined  the  Scottish  rising 
against  William  III.,  when  she  declared  that  she 
had  seen  her  lost  lover,  and  was  taken  dangerously 
ill.  Balfour  was  hiding  in  a  cavern  near  the  widow 
MacClure's  cottage,  and,  at  an  interview  with  him, 
Morton  saved  himself  with  difficulty  from  his 
religious  frenzy.  As  he  returned  he  overheard  a 
plot  to  surprise  Lord  Evandale  ;  and,  while  he  was 
on  his  way  to  Glasgow  to  obtain  military  aid,  a 
party  of  horsemen,  headed  by  Olifant,  approached 
the  mansion  where  his  lordship  was  taking  leave 
of  Edith,  in  despair  of  gaining  her  affection. 
Followed  by  his  servants  he  rode  to  meet  them, 
and  fell  from  his  horse  mortally  wounded.  The 
renegade  was  killed  at  the  same  time,  and  as 
Balfour  was  attacking  Halliday,  a  troop  of  Dutch 
dragoons  came  to  the  rescue.  All  the  assailants 
surrendered  except  the  Covenanter,  who  was  pur- 
sued, and,  after  a  desperate  struggle,  was  drowned 
with  one  of  the  soldiers  in  his  grasp.  Lord  Evan- 
dale,  as  he  was  dying,  joined  Edith's  and  Morton's 
hands,  and  Lady  Margaret  recovered  her  castle 
and  lands. 


THE  BRIDE  OF  LAMMERMOOR 


Principal  Characters 


EDGAR,  heir  of  the  late  Master 

of  Ravenswood. 
CALEB  BAI.DERSTON,  his  steward 

at  Wolf  s  Crag  7^ower. 
MYSIE,  Caleb's  wife. 
SIR    WILLIAM    ASIITON,    the 

Scottish  Lord  Keeper. 
LADY  ASHTON,  his  wife. 


SHOLTO  DOUGLAS 

ASHTON, 
HENRY  ASHTON, 
Their  daughter,  LUCY. 


their 
sons. 


AILSIE  GOURLAY,  her  nurse. 

CAPTAIN  CRAIGENFELT,  a 
Jacobite  adventurer, 

FRANK  HAYSTON,  laird  of 
Bucklaiv. 

LADY  GERNINGTON,  his  aunt. 

LADY  BLEKENSOP,  his  kins- 
woman. 

ALICE,  a  blind  servant  of  the 
Ravenswood  family. 

REV.     MR     BlDE-THE-BENT,      a 

Presbyterian  minister. 


Funeral  procession,  foresters,  servants,  grave-diggers,  villagers, 
surgeon  and  physicians. 

Period,  1695.     Locality:  East  Lothian. 

THE  ancient  scat  of  the  Ravenswood  family  had 
been  purchased  by  Sir  William  Ashton,  and  the 
late  lord,  who  was  under  attaint  as  a  Jacobite,  had 
inspired  his  son  with  a  hatred  towards  him,  which 
was  enhanced  by  the  lord  keeper  granting  a 
warrant  to  prevent  the  use  of  the  Episcopalian 
service  at  his  father's  funeral.  The  next  day,  as 
Sir  William  and  his  daughter  were  returning  from 
a  visit  to  old  Alice,  they  were  pursued  by  a  bull, 
which  was  shot  by  Kdgar,  who  carried  Lucy  to  a 
fountain,  but  declined  her  father's  thanks.  He  had 

71 


72     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

arranged  to  seek  his  fortune  abroad  with  Bucklaw 
and  the  captain,  but,  on  meeting  them  at  an  inn, 
he  announced  that  he  had  changed  his  mind,  and 
invited  the  young  laird  to  Wolf's  Crag.  Here 
Caleb  and  Mysie  made  amusing  efforts  to  maintain 
their  master's  hospitality  with  a  very  slender  stock 
of  provisions ;  and  were  still  more  disconcerted 
when  he  returned  home  from  a  stag  hunt  with  the 
lord  keeper  and  his  daughter,  to  whom  he  had 
offered  shelter  from  a  storm.  The  old  steward, 
however,  managed  by  a  ruse  to  shut  the  gates 
against  the  huntsmen,  who  were  entertained  by 
Bucklaw  and  Craigenfelt ;  and  having  abstracted 
some  wild  fowl  from  a  neighbour's  spit,  and  pro- 
cured other  supplies,  he  was  able  to  set  a  credit- 
able meal  before  the  guests,  who  passed  the  night 
in  the  tower. 

Sir  William  had  been  troubled  with  serious  fears 
of  Edgar's  inherited  resentment,  but  they  were 
dissipated  by  his  evident  admiration  of  Lucy,  and 
his  acceptance,  in  spite  of  Caleb's  remonstrances, 
of  an  invitation  to  spend  a  few  days  at  Ravens- 
wood.  During  this  visit  he  was  taken  by  Lucy 
and  her  brother  Henry  to  see  old  Alice,  who 
warned  him  that  he  came  either  in  fatal  anger  or 
in  fatal  love;  but  instead  of  saying  farewell  for 
ever,  as  he  had  resolved,  her  tears  prevailed,  and 
their  troth  was  plighted  to  each  other.  Lady 
Ashton,  however,  had  arranged  a  match  for  her 
daughter  with  Bucklaw,  who  had  just  inherited 
his  aunt's  fortune,  and,  on  returning  home,  wrote  a 
note  to  Edgar  which  left  him  no  alternative  but 
to  quit  the  house  at  once.  On  his  way  through 


THE   BRIDE   OF   LAMMERMOOR  73 

the  park  he  encountered  an  apparition  of  old 
Alice,  and,  on  reaching  her  cottage,  he  found  that 
she  had  died  a  short  time  previously,  expressing 
an  eager  desire  to  speak  to  him.  Having  received 
an  evasive  reply  from  Sir  William,  and  an  insolent 
one  from  her  ladyship,  to  the  letters  he  addressed 
to  them,  and  a  few  lines  assuring  him  of  her  con- 
stancy from  Lucy,  Ravcnswood  departed  on  a 
mission  abroad  which  his  kinsman,  the  Marquis  of 
A.,  had  confided  to  him. 

During  his  absence  Lady  Ashton  extorted  a 
promise  from  her  daughter  that  she  would  marry 
Bucklaw,  on  condition  that  Edgar  released  her,  or 
failed  to  answer  the  letter  she  had  sent  him,  by 
St  Jude's  day.  In  the  meantime  she  learnt  that 
the  marquis  was  exerting  his  power  to  reverse 
the  judgments  by  which  her  father  had  become 
possessed  of  the  Ravenswood  property,  and  was 
told  that  Edgar,  whose  reply  her  mother  had  in- 
tercepted, was  engaged  to  another  lady.  Her 
nurse  had  also  filled  her  mind  with  melancholy 
forebodings,  and  on  Bucklaw  presenting  himself 
again,  at  the  expiration  of  the  interval  she  had 
agreed  to,  Lucy  had  just  signed  the  marriage  con- 
tract, when  the  tramp  of  a  horse  was  heard  at  the 
gate,  and  .she  exclaimed,  '  He  is  come  ! '  Edgar 
forced  his  way  into  the  room,  and  having  been 
assured  by  the  minister  that  she  had  executed  the 
deed  without  fraud  or  compulsion,  he  placed  before 
her  their  written  engagement,  with  the  portion  he 
had  retained  of  the  coin  they  had  broken,  and,  at 
his  request,  she  returned  him  the  tokens  in  her 
possession.  Her  mother  determined  that  the 


74     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

wedding  with  Bucklaw  should  take  place  on  the 
appointed  day,  and  Henry  was  censured  for  hav- 
ing lost  the  dagger  he  should  have  worn  on  the 
the  occasion.  In  the  midst  of  the  ball  which 
followed  their  marriage,  a  piercing  cry  was  heard, 
the  bridegroom  had  been  stabbed,  and  the  bride 
was  crouching  in  the  chimney  corner  bereft  of  her 
reason.  She  died  the  following  evening ;  and,  on 
recovering  from  his  wound,  her  husband  declared 
he  had  neither  story  to  tell  nor  injury  to  avenge. 
Ravenswood  attended  the  funeral  in  disguise  ;  and, 
having  accepted  a  challenge  from  Colonel  Ashton, 
was  riding  to  meet  him,  when  he  disappeared  in 
the  sand  knolls  he  was  crossing,  the  only  vestige 
of  his  fate  being  the  sable  feather  he  had  worn  in 
his  hat. 


THE  PI RA  TE 


Principal  Characters 


MR  BASIL  MERTOUN,  alias 
VAUGHAN,  of  Jarlshof  Castle, 
Sumburgh  Head. 

His  son,  MORDAUNT. 

SWERTHA,  their  housekeeper. 

SWEYN  ERICKSON,  a  fisherman. 

MAGNUS  TROIL,  a  Zetland 
itdaller,  or  landholder. 

MINNA,  "jr.,      , 
'    \his  aa»gh 


ters. 


NEIL  KONALDSON,  Ranzclman 

of  Jarlshof . 
MR  TRIPTOLEMUS  YELLOWLEY, 

of  Harfra-Sto urburgh,  a  Scotch 

factor. 

His  sister,  BARBARA. 
TRONDA        DRONSDAUGHTER, 

their  servant. 

BRYCE  SNAILSFOOT,  a  pedlar. 
CLAUD  HALCRO,  an  old  bard. 
CLEMENT  CLEVELAND,  alias 

VAUGHAN,  a  pirate  captain. 
JOHN  BUNCE,  alias  FREDERICK 

ALTAMONT,  his  lieutenant. 
CAPTAIN     WEATHERPORT,    of 

II. M.S.  'Halcyon.' 


BRENDA, 

EUPHANE  FEA,  his  housekeeper. 

ERIC  SCAMBESTER,  his  servant. 

ULLA  TROIL,  alias  NORNA,  of 
the  Fitful  Head,  his  kins- 
woman. 

NICHOLAS  STRUMPFER,  alias 
PACOLET,  her  servant. 

Inhabitants  of  Shetland,  guests  at  Burgh- IVestra,  masquers,  provost 
and  citizens  of  Kirkwall  and  Strotmiess,  pirate  officers  and 
seamen. 

Period,  1700.     Localities:  Shetland  and  Orkney  Islands. 

MR  MEKTOUN  and  his  son  had  arrived  as  strangers, 
and  resided  for  several  years  in  the  old  mansion 
of  the  Earls  of  Orkney,  the  father  leading  a  very 
secluded  life,  while  Mordaunt  became  a  general 
favourite  with  the  inhabitants,  and  especially  with 
the  udaller  and  his  daughters.  On  his  way  home 
from  a  visit  to  them,  he  and  the  pedlar  sought 
shelter  from  a  storm  at  the  Yellowleys'  farmhouse, 

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76     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

where  they  were  amused  with  their  penurious  ways, 
and  encountered  Norna,  who  was  supposed  to  be 
in  league  with  the  fairies,  and  to  possess  super- 
natural powers.  The  next  day  a  ship  was  wrecked 
on  the  rocky  coast,  and,  at  the  risk  of  his  life, 
Mordaunt  rescued  Cleveland  as  he  was  cast  on  the 
beach  clinging  to  a  plank,  while  Norna  prevented 
his  sea-chest  from  being  pillaged.  The  captain 
promised  his  preserver  a  trip  in  a  consort  ship 
which  he  expected  would  arrive  shortly,  and  went 
to  seek  the  udaller's  help  in  recovering  some  of 
his  other  property  that  had  been  washed  ashore. 
After  the  lapse  of  several  weeks,  however,  during 
which  the  Troils  had  discontinued  their  friendly 
communications  with  him,  Mordaunt  heard  that 
the  stranger  was  still  their  guest,  and  that  they 
were  arranging  an  entertainment  for  St  John's  Eve, 
to  which  he  had  not  been  bidden. 

As  he  was  brooding  over  this  slight,  Norna 
touched  his  shoulder,  and,  assuring  him  of  her 
goodwill,  advised  him  to  join  the  party  uninvited. 
Warned  by  his  father  against  falling  in  love,  and 
with  some  misgivings  as  to  his  reception,  he  called 
at  Harfra  on  his  way,  and  accompanied  the  factor 
and  his  sister  to  the  feast.  Minna  and  Brenda 
replied  to  their  discarded  companion's  greeting 
with  cold  civility,  and  he  felt  convinced  that  Cleve- 
land had  supplanted  him  in  their  esteem.  The 
bard  endeavoured  to  cheer  him  with  his  poetry  and 
reminiscences  of  Dryclen ;  and,  in  the  course  of 
the  evening,  Brenda,  disguised  as  a  masquer,  told 
him  they  had  heard  that  he  had  spoken  unkindly 
of  them,  but  that  she  did  not  believe  he  had  done 


THE    PIRATE  77 

so.  She  also  expressed  her  fear  that  the  stranger 
had  won  Minna's  love,  and  begged  Mordaunt  to 
discover  all  he  could  respecting  him.  During  an 
attempt  to  capture  a  whale  the  following  day, 
Cleveland  saved  Mordaunt  from  drowning,  and, 
being  thus  released  from  his  obligation  to  him, 
intimated  that  henceforth  they  were  rivals.  The 
same  evening  the  pedlar  brought  tidings  that  a 
strange  ship  had  arrived  at  Kirkwall,  and  Cleve- 
land talked  of  a  trip  thither  to  ascertain  whether  it 
was  the  consort  he  had  been  so  long  expecting. 

After  the  sisters  had  retired  to  bed,  Norna 
appeared  in  their  room,  and  narrated  a  startling 
tale  of  her  early  life,  which  led  Minna  to  con- 
fess her  attachment  to  the  captain,  and  to  elicit 
Brenda's  partiality  for  Mordaunt.  At  a  secret 
interview  the  next  morning,  Cleveland  admitted 
to  Minna  that  he  was  a  pirate,  upon  which  she 
declared  that  she  could  only  still  love  him  as  a 
penitent,  and  not  as  the  hero  she  had  hitherto 
imagined  him  to  be.  He  announced,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  her  father  and  sister,  his  intention  of  start- 
ing at  once  for  Kirkwall ;  but  at  night  he  serenaded 
her,  and  then,  after  hearing  a  struggle  and  a  groan, 
she  saw  the  shadow  of  a  figure  disappearing  with 
another  on  his  shoulders.  Overcome  with  grief 
and  suspense,  she  was  seized  with  a  fit  of  melan- 
choly, for  the  cure  of  which  the  udaller  consulted 
Norna  in  her  secluded  dwelling ;  and,  after  a 
mystic  ceremony,  she  predicted  that  the  cause 
would  cease  when  'crimson  foot  met  crimson  hand' 
in  the  Martyr's  Aisle  in  Orkney  land,  whither  she 
commanded  her  kinsman  to  proceed  with  his 


78  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY    NOVELS 

daughters.  Mordaunt  had  been  stabbed  by  the 
pirate,  but  had  been  carried  away  by  Norna  to 
Hoy,  where  she  told  him  she  was  his  mother,  and, 
after  curing  his  wound,  conveyed  him  to  Kirkwall. 
Here  Cleveland  had  joined  his  companions,  and, 
having  been  chosen  captain  of  the  consort  ship, 
he  obtained  leave  from  the  provost  for  her  to  take 
in  stores  at  Stromness  and  quit  the  islands,  on 
condition  that  he  remained  as  a  hostage  for  the 
crew's  behaviour. 

On  their  way  they  captured  the  brig  containing 
the  Troils,  but  Minna  and  Brenda  were  sent  safely 
ashore  by  Bunce,  and  escorted  by  old  Halcro  to 
visit  a  relative.  The  lovers  met  in  the  cathedral 
of  St  Magnus,  whence,  with  Norna's  aid,  Cleveland 
escaped  to  his  ship,  and  the  sisters  were  trans- 
ferred to  the  residence  of  the  bard's  cousin,  where 
their  father  joined  them,  and  found  Mordaunt  in 
charge  of  a  party  of  dependents  for  their  protec- 
tion. When  all  was  ready  for  sailing,  the  captain 
resolved  to  see  Minna  once  more,  and  having  sent 
a  note  begging  her  to  meet  him  at  the  Standing 
Stones  at  daybreak,  he  made  his  way  thither. 
Brenda  persuaded  Mordaunt  to  allow  her  sister  to 
keep  the  appointment,  and  as  the  lovers  were  taking 
their  last  farewell,  they  and  Brenda  were  seized  by 
Bunce  and  his  crew  from  the  boat,  and  would  have 
been  carried  off,  had  not  Mordaunt  hastened  to 
the  rescue,  and  made  prisoners  of  the  pirate  and 
his  lieutenant.  Norna  had  warned  Cleveland 
against  delaying  his  departure,  and  his  last  hopes 
were  quenched  when,  from  the  window  of  the 
room  in  which  he  and  Bunce  were  confined,  they 


THE   PIRATE  79 

witnessed  the  arrival  of  the  Halcyon,  whose  captain 
she  had  communicated  with,  and  the  capture,  after 
a  desperate  resistance,  of  their  ship. 

The  elder  Mcrtoun  now  sought  Norna's  aid  to 
save  their  son,  who,  he  declared,  was  not  Mordaunt, 
as  she  imagined,  but  Cleveland,  whom  he  had 
trained  as  a  pirate  under  his  own  real  name  of 
Vaughan,  her  former  lover ;  and  having  lost  trace 
of  him  till  now,  had  come  to  Jarlshof,  with  his 
child  by  a  Spanish  wife,  to  atone  for  the  misdeeds 
of  his  youth.  On  inquiry  it  appeared  that  Cleve- 
land and  Bunce  had  earned  their  pardon  by  acts  of 
mercy  in  their  piratical  career,  and  were  allowed 
to  enter  the  king's  service.  Minna  was  further 
consoled  by  a  penitent  letter  from  her  lover; 
Brenda  became  Mordaunt's  wife ;  and  the  aber- 
ration of  mind,  occasioned  by  remorse  at  having 
caused  her  father's  death,  having  passed  away, 
Norna  abandoned  her  supernatural  pretensions  and 
peculiar  habits,  and  resumed  her  family  name. 


MY  AUNT  MARGARET'S  MIRROR 


Principal  Characters 


SIR  FHII.IP  FORESTER. 

His  wife,  LADY  JEMIMA. 

His  wife's  sister,  LADY  BOTH- 


MAJOR  FALCON'ER,  their  brofher. 
BAPTISTA  DAMIOTTI,C  Pad  nan 

doctor. 


WELL. 

Servants ,  a  physician. 
Period,  1702.     Localities:  Edinburgh  and  Flanders. 

SlR  PHILIP,  who  had  married  for  money  and 
quarrelled  with  his  brother-in-law,  determined  to 
join  the  Duke  of  Marlborough's  army  in  Flanders 
as  a  volunteer.  Receiving  no  tidings  of  him  for 
many  months,  Lady  Jemima  resolved  to  consult  a 
doctor  from  Padua,  who  had  the  reputation  of 
being  able  to  show  his  visitors  their  absent  friends, 
and  what  they  were  doing.  Accordingly  she  and 
her  sister,  disguised  as  soldiers'  wives,  went  to  him 
secretly,  when  he  at  once  told  them  their  real 
names  and  the  information  they  desired.  Having 
enjoined  absolute  silence,  and  changed  his  dress  to 
that  of  an  eastern  necromancer,  he  led  them  into 
a  room  hung  with  black  and  lighted  with  torches, 
containing  a  large  mirror  behind  an  altar,  on  which 
were  two  swords,  an  open  book,  and  a  human 
skull.  Gradually  the  mirror  ceased  to  reflect  these 
objects,  and  they  saw  the  interior  of  a  foreign 

So 


MY  AUNT  MARGARET'S  MIRROR  Si 

church,  in  which  Sir  Philip  was  about  to  be 
married  to  a  beautiful  girl,  when  a  group  of 
officers  entered,  one  of  whom  advanced  towards 
the  bridal  party,  arid  swords  were  drawn  on  both 
sides.  The  scene  then  vanished,  and  the  mirror 
again  reflected  the  contents  of  the  room.  Restora- 
tives were  now  offered  to  the  ladies,  and  they  were 
conducted  to  their  carriage,  the  professor  handing 
Lady  Bothwcll  a  composing  draught  for  her  sister. 
A  few  days  afterwards  news  arrived  from 
Holland  that  Sir  Philip's  nuptials  with  the 
daughter  of  a  rich  burgo-master  were  actually 
about  to  be  celebrated,  when  Major  Falconer, 
who  happened  to  be  in  the  town,  and  had  come 
with  some  brother  officers  to  witness  the  ceremony 
as  an  amusement,  recognised  and  denounced  the 
would-be  bigamist,  accepted  a  challenge  from  him, 
and  was  killed.  Lady  Jemima  never  recovered 
from  the  shock,  the  Italian  disappeared  to  escape 
arrest  as  a  Jacobite,  and  Sir  Philip  having,  in  his 
old  age,  sought  in  vain  a  reconciliation  with  Lady 
Bothwell,  eluded  pursuit  as  a  murderer  and  died 
abroad. 


THE    BLACK    DWARF 


Principal  Characters 


HOBBIE  ELLIOT,  of  the  Hcugh- 

foot  lai'in. 

His  GRANDMOTHER. 
OLD    ANNAPPLE,     his     foster 

mother. 
LILIAS,     1 

JEAN,         \his  misters. 
AN  NOT,    ) 
GRACE  ARMSTRONG,  his  cousin 

a>ni  sweetheart. 
PATRICK  EARNSCLIFF,  a  young 

squire. 
ELS H IE,  the  Dwarf  of  Muckle- 

stane   Moor;    afterwards   SIR 

EDWARD  MAULEY. 


MR  RICHARD  VERE.  the  laird 

of  El  Us  I  aw. 
His  daughter,  ISABEL. 
SIR  FREDERICK  LANGLEV,  her 

suitor. 

LUCY  ILDERTON,  her  friend. 
WILLIE  GR/EME,  of  Westerfatm- 

ftat,  a  freebooter. 
MR     HUBERT    RATCLIKFE,    a 

friend  of  Sir  William  Mauky. 
RALPH  MARESCHAL,  Mr  Vere's 

cousin. 
DR  HoBBLER,  a  priest. 


Elliot's  brothers  and  neighbour 
comrades,  Jacobite  friends 

Period,  1 706.     Locality  :  the  Lowlands  of  Scotland. 


s,    Westerburnflafs  mother  and 
and  servants  of  Mr    Vere. 


As  Elliot  was  returning  over  a  wild  moor  from  a 
day's  sport,  thinking  of  the  legends  he  had  heard 
of  its  supernatural  occupants  after  nightfall,  he 
was  overtaken  by  Earnscliff,  whose  father  had 
been  killed  in  a  quarrel  with  the  laird  of  Ellislaw, 
when  the  moon  suddenly  revealed  the  figure  of  a 
human  dwarf,  who,  on  being  spoken  to,  refused 
their  offers  of  assistance,  and  bid  them  begone. 
Having  invited  Earnscliff  to  sup  with  his  women 
folks,  and  pass  the  night  at  his  farm,  Hobbie 

82 


THE   BLACK   DWARF  83 

accompanied  him  next  morning  to  confront  the 
strange  being  by  daylight ;  and  having  assisted 
him  in  collecting  stones  for  constructing  a  hut, 
they  supplied  him  with  food  and  other  necessaries. 
In  a  short  time  he  had  completed  his  dwelling, 
and  became  known  to  the  neighbours,  for  whose 
ailments  he  prescribed,  as  Elshender  the  Recluse. 
Being  visited  by  Isabel  and  two  of  her  friends,  he 
told  their  fortunes,  and  he  gave  her  a  rose,  with 
strict  injunctions  to  bring  it  to  him  in  her  hour  of 
adversity.  As  they  rode  homewards,  their  con- 
versation implied  that  she  loved  young  Earnscliff, 
but  that  Mr  Vere  intended  her  to  marry  Sir 
Frederick.  Another  of  his  visitors  was  West- 
burnflat,  on  his  way  to  avenge  an  affront  he  had 
received  from  Elliot,  whose  dog  the  next  day 
killed  one  of  the  dwarfs  goats,  for  which  he 
warned  him  that  retribution  was  at  hand. 

Shortly  afterwards  the  freebooter  brought  word 
that  he  and  his  companions  had  fired  Robbie's 
farm,  and  carried  off  his  sweetheart  and  cattle  ; 
on  hearing  which  Elshie  despatched  him  with  an 
order  for  some  money,  and  insisted  that  Grace 
should  be  given  up  uninjured.  Having  dispersed 
his  neighbours  in  search  of  her,  Elliot  went  to  con- 
sult Elshie,  who  handed  him  a  bag  of  gold,  which 
he  declined,  and  intimated  that  he  must  seek  her 
whom  he  had  lost  in  the  iccst.  Earnscliff  and  his 
party  had  tracked  the  cattle  as  far  as  the  English 
border,  but  on  finding  a  large  Jacobite  force  as- 
sembling there  they  returned,  and  it  was  decided 
to  attack  Westburn flat's  stronghold.  On  approach- 
ing it,  a  female  hand,  which  her  lover  swore  was 


84  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

Grace's,  waved  a  signal  to  them  from  a  turret,  and 
as  they  were  preparing  a  bonfire  to  force  the 
door,  Graeme  agreed  to  release  his  prisoner,  who 
proved  to  be  Isabel.  On  reaching  home,  however, 
Elliot  found  his  cousin  had  been  brought  back,  and 
at  dawn  he  started  off  to  accept  the  money  which 
the  dwarf  had  offered  him  to  repair  his  homestead. 
Isabel  had  been  seized  by  ruffians  while  walking 
with  her  father,  who  appeared  overcome  with  grief, 
and  under  the  impression  that  Earnscliff  was  the 
offender ;  whereas  Mr  Ratcliffe,  who  managed  his 
affairs,  suggested  that  Sir  Frederick  had  stronger 
motives  for  placing  her  under  restraint.  Mr  Vere's 
suspicion  seemed  justified  by  their  meeting  his 
daughter  returning  under  her  lover's  care  ;  but  she 
confirmed  his  version  of  the  circumstances  under 
which  he  had  intervened,  to  the  evident  discom- 
fiture of  his  rival  and  her  father. 

At  a  large  gathering,  the  same  day,  of  the  Pre- 
tender's adherents  in  the  hall  of  Ellieslaw  Castle, 
Mareschal  produced  a  letter  which  dissipated  all 
their  hopes,  and  Sir  Frederick  insisted  that  his 
marriage  with  Isabel  should  take  place  before 
midnight.  She  had  consented,  on  her  father's 
representation  that  his  life  would  be  forfeited  if 
she  refused,  when  Mr  Ratcliffe  persuaded  her  to 
make  use  of  the  token  which  KLshie  had  given  her, 
and  escorted  her  to  his  dwelling.  He  promised 
that  at  the  foot  of  the  altar  he  would  redeem  her  ; 
and,  just  as  the  ceremony  was  commencing  in  the 
chapel,  a  voice,  which  seemed  to  proceed  from  her 
mother's  tomb,  uttered  the  word  '  Forbear.'  The 
dwarfs  real  name  and  rank  were  then  revealed,  as 


THE   BLACK   DWARF  85 

well  as  the  circumstances  under  which  he  had 
acquired  the  power  of  thus  interfering  on  Isabel's 
behalf;  while  Hobbie  and  his  friends  supported 
Mr  Ratcliffe  in  dispersing  the  would-be  rebels. 
Sir  Edward  at  the  same  time  disappeared  from 
the  neighbourhood,  and  Mr  Vcre  retired,  with  an 
ample  allowance,  to  the  Continent,  all  the  Ellieslaw 
property,  as  well  as  the  baronet's,  being  settled  on 
Earnscliff  and  his  bride.  Sir  Frederick  Langley 
was,  a  few  years  afterwards,  executed  at  Preston, 
and  Westburnflat  earned  a  commission  in  Marl- 
borough's  army  by  his  services  in  providing  cattle 
for  the  commissariat. 


ROB   ROY 


Principal  Characters 


MR  WILLIAM  OSBALDISTONE, 

of  the  firm  of  Osbaldistone  &* 

Tresham. 

FRANK  OSBALDISTONE,  his  son. 
MR   OWEN,  principal  clerk   to 

the  firm. 
ANDRKW  FAIRSERVICE,  Frank's 

servant. 
SIR    FREDERICK    VERNON,    a 

Jacobite. 
His  daughter,  DIANA. 

SIR      HlLDEKRAND      OSBALDI- 

STONE,  his  maternal  uncle. 

RASHLEIGH  OSBALDISTONE,  his 
son. 

MARTHA,  Diana 's  maid. 

SQUIRE  INGLEWOOD,  a  North- 
umbrian justice  of  the  peace. 

MR  JOSEPH  JOBSON,  his  clerk. 


MAcViTTlE  &  MAcFlN,  traders 
in  Glasgow. 

DOUGAL,  a  turnkey  in  the  Tol- 
booth. 

BAILIE  NICOL  JARVIE,  a  weaver. 

MATTIE,  his  servant. 

JEAN  MACALPINE,  hostess  f 
inn  at  Aberfoil. 

MAJOR  GALBRAITH,  of  the 
Lennox  militia. 

MAcSTUART,  one  of  his  troopers. 

CAPTAIN  THORNTON,  of  the 
Royals. 

ROB  ROY  MACGREGOR  CAMP- 
BELL, a  Scottish  outlaw. 

His  wife,  HELEN. 

ROBERT,      1    .,  . 

J-   their  sons. 
IlAMISH,       ) 


Highlanders  and  soldiers,  servants,  etc. 


Period,  1715. 


Localities:   Northumberland,  Glasgow  and 
neighbourhood. 


FRANK  OSBALDISTONE  had  declined  a  partnership 
in  his  father's  business;  and  as  he  was  journeying 
nothwards,  on  a  visit  to  his  uncle  Sir  Hildebrand, 
he  travelled  with  a  very  nervous  man,  and  dined 
at  an  inn  with  Mr  Campbell,  a  cattle  salesman. 
During  a  hunting  expedition  with  his  cousins,  he- 
learned  from  Diana  that  he  was  charged  with 
having  committed  a  highway  robbery,  and  she 
86 


ROB    ROY  87 

escorted  him  to  Squire  Inglewood's,  where  he  en- 
countered his  travelling  companion  as  his  accuser, 
and  was  acquitted  on  the  testimony  of  the  Scotch 
dealer.  Having  fallen  in  love  with  Diana,  he  dis- 
covered that  she  was  destined  for  Rashleigh,  or  a 
cloister,  and  that  he  was  a  hypocrite.  During  his 
rival's  absence  from  home,  Frank  gained  his 
cousin's  confidence  and  became  her  constant  com 
panion.  He  also  obtained  important  information 
from  Andrew  Fairservice,  and  on  returning  from  a 
talk  with  him,  witnessed  an  interview  between  his 
lady-love  and  a  male  stranger.  He  next  learnt 
from  her  that  Rashleigh  was  in  charge  of  his 
father's  business  while  he  was  gone  to  Holland ; 
and,  a  few  days  later,  she  handed  him  a  letter 
announcing  that  his  cousin  had  robbed  the  firm 
and  disappeared.  Having  advised  his  immediate 
departure  for  Glasgow,  she  entrusted  him  with 
another  letter  to  be  used  under  certain  circum- 
stances, and  he  started  with  Andrew  as  his  servant. 
In  the  cathedral  there,  some  one  whispered  be- 
hind him,  '  Meet  me  at  midnight  on  the  bridge,' 
and,  having  done  so,  he  was  conducted  to  the 
Tolbooth,  and  admitted  by  Dougal  to  a  cell  in 
which  he  found  Owen,  who  had  been  imprisoned 
by  MacVittie  and  MacFin.  Presently  his  guide 
hurried  in,  followed  by  Mr  Jarvie,  who  was  Mr 
Osbaldistone's  agent,  and  the  stranger  proved  to 
be  Mr  Campbell,  alias  Rob  Roy,  the  bailie's 
kinsman.  The  Highlander,  to  whom  Diana's  letter 
was  addressed,  invited  his  relative  and  Frank  to 
dine  with  him  at  Aberfoil,  and  intimated  that  he 
miijht  be  able  to  arrange  Mr  Osbaldistone's  affairs. 


88     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

Having  been  interrupted  in  a  duel  with  Rashleigh, 
whom  he  met  in  the  city,  Frank  started  with  Mr 
Jarvie  and  Andrew  for  the  inn  named  by  Camp- 
bell, where  the  bailie  fought  MacStuart  with  a  red- 
hot  poker,  and  they  were  arrested  by  Captain 
Thornton  and  his  troops  for  being  in  communica- 
tion with  a  proscribed  robber.  Dougal  was  also 
brought  in  as  a  spy,  and  accepted  a  bribe  to  betray 
Rob  Roy's  hiding-place.  The  red-coats,  however, 
had  scarcely  disappeared  with  their  prisoners, 
when  the  outlaw  emerged  from  behind  the  inn 
with  Rashleigh,  upon  a  signal  from  whom  he  was 
seized  by  Galbraith  and  his  troopers. 

Captain  Thornton  and  his  party  were  led  by 
their  guide  to  a  narrow  pass,  on  entering  which 
they  were  challenged  by  Roy's  wife,  and  fired 
upon  by  a  hidden  force.  In  the  scramble  which 
ensued  the  bailie  was  suspended  by  his  coat-tails 
to  the  branch  of  a  tree,  and  they  were  surrounded 
by  Highlanders.  Mr  Jarvie  claimed  relationship 
with  his  kinsman's  spouse,  but  she  scornfully 
ordered  all  the  prisoners  to  be  bound,  and  thrown 
into  an  adjacent  lake.  Suddenly  her  sons  brought 
news  of  their  father's  capture,  and,  having  de- 
nounced Rashleigh,  she  had  despatched  Frank 
with  a  message  to  the  Duke  of  Argyle,  when  a 
shout  echoed  through  the  gorge,  and  Rob  Roy 
rushed  into  his  wife's  arms.  He  had  managed, 
with  the  connivance  of  one  of  the  troopers,  to  set 
himself  free  as  they  crossed  the  river,  and,  by  his 
expertness  in  swimming  and  diving,  to  escape 
pursuit.  Frank  was  making  his  way  back  to  the 
inn  at  Aberfoil,  when  he  was  overtaken  by  Diana 


ROB   ROY  89 

with  an  elderly  escort,  who  bade  her  restore  to  her 
cousin  the  papers  Rashleigh  had  stolen  from  his 
father,  and  they  parted.  Then  he  met  MacGregor, 
who  accompanied  him  to  the  clachan,  where  they 
found  the  bailie  solacing  himself  for  the  rough 
treatment  he  had  undergone,  and  anxious  to  make 
the  outlaw's  sons  his  apprentices. 

On  reaching  Glasgow  again  Frank  was  welcomed 
by  his  father,  who  had  come  thither  with  the  inten- 
tion of  punishing  his  nephew  ;  and,  on  their  return 
to  London,  he  was  allowed  to  join  the  army  which 
was  being  raised  to  put  down  the  rebellion  of 
1715,  in  which  Sir  Hildebrand  was  taken  prisoner 
and  died  in  Newgate,  leaving  Frank  his  heir.  He 
accordingly  went  to  take  possession  of  the  estate  ; 
and  having  learnt  from  Squire  Inglewood  that 
the  stranger  who  visited  Diana  was  her  father, 
disguised  as  a  priest,  he  was  startled  by  their 
sudden  appearance  in  the  library  to  claim  his 
protection  as  Papists.  The  next  day  Rashleigh 
entered  with  them  as  prisoners ;  but  they  were 
rescued  by  a  party  of  Highlanders  led  by  Mac- 
Gregor,  who  plunged  his  sword  into  the  traitor, 
and  the  Vernons  embarked  for  France.  Mr 
Osbaldistone  was  not  a  little  shocked  that  his 
son  should  entertain  the  idea  of  marrying  a 
Roman  Catholic ;  but  after  some  hesitation  he 
consented,  under  the  belief  that  a  dutiful  daughter 
could  not  but  prove  a  good  wife  ;  and  Rob  Roy, 
notwithstanding  his  many  daring  and  perilous 
adventures,  died  a  peaceful  death  at  a  good  old 
age,  remembered  by  his  countrymen  as  the  dread 
of  the  wealthy,  but  the  friend  of  the  poor. 


HEART  OF  MID-LOTHIAN 


Principal  Characters 


CAPTAIN  PORTEOUS,  an  officer 

of  the  city  guard. 
DAVID  DEANS,  a  dairy-farmer 

at  St  Leonard's  Crags. 
TEANIE,  "j  , .    ,      , , 
EFFIE,     }hls  d™Shters. 

THE  LAIRD  OF  DUMBIEDYKES, 

Jeanie's  admit  er, 
REUBEN  BUTLER,  a  schoolmaster, 

her  real  lover. 
MR   BARTOLINI   SADDLETREE, 

Deans 's  cousin. 
SIR  EDMUND  STAUNTON,  Rector 

of  Willingham, 
GEORGE      STAUNTON,       alias 

ROBERTSON,  his  son. 
ANDREW  WILSON,  a  smuggler, 

his  companion. 
MEG    MURDOCKSON,     George's 

nurse. 


MADGE   WILDFIRE,   her  crazy 

daughter. 

SHARPITLAW,  a  constable. 
JIM  RATCLIFFE,  his  subordinate. 
THE  KING'S  ADVOCATE. 
MR  FAIRBROTHER,  counsel  for 

Effie. 
MRS  BlCKERTON,  landlady  of  the 

'  Seven  Stars  '  at  York. 
MRS  GLASS,  a  tobacconist. 
MACCALLUM  MORE,  DUKE  OF 

ARGYLE. 
MR  ARCHIBALD,  his  groom  of 

the  chamber. 
QUEEN  CAROLINE,    WIFE    OF 

KING  GEORGE  II. 
MRS  DUTTON,  a  dairyu'oman. 
DUNCAN   KNOCK,  the   Captain 

of  Knockdunder. 
DONOCHA  DHU,  a  robber. 


Rioters,  neighbottrs  of  the  Deans,  lords  of  justiciary,  officers  of  the 
court  and  To/booth  at  Edinburgh,  robbers,  servants,  etc. 

Period,  1736.     Localities:  Edinburgh,  Alidland  Counties,  London 
and  Dumbartonshire. 

DURING  the  Porteous  riots  at  Edinburgh,  which 
arose  from  the  escape  of  a  convict  named  Robert- 
son, and  an  attempt  to  rescue  the  body  of  his  com- 
panion Wilson  from  the  gallows,  Effie  Deans  was 
arrested  on  suspicion  of  having  murdered  her  newly- 
born  child,  and  imprisoned  in  the  Tolbooth.  While 
Porteous  was  being  dragged  thence  by  the  mob 
for  execution,  Robertson,  disguised  as  a  woman, 

90 


HEART   OF   MID-LOTHIAN  91 

urged  her  in  vain  to  escape  ;  and  subsequently, 
meeting  Butler,  arranged  an  interview  with  Jeanie, 
to  whom  he  confessed  that  he  was  Effie's  lover, 
and  explained  how  she  might  save  her  sister's 
life.  Neither  he,  however,  nor  her  father,  nor 
even  her  sister's  entreaties,  could  induce  Jeanie 
to  bear  false  witness  at  the  trial.  Effie's  reply  to 
the  indictment  was  — '  Not  guilty  of  my  poor 
bairn's  death ; '  but  the  verdict  of  the  jury  was 
against  her,  and  she  was  condemned  to  be 
hanged.  Jeanie  at  once  determined  to  seek  the 
queen's  intercession  for  her  sister ;  and  having 
accepted  a  loan  from  Dumbiedykes,  and  obtained 
a  letter  from  Butler  to  the  Duke  of  Argyle,  she 
started  on  foot  for  London. 

Near  Grantham  her  money  was  demanded  by 
two  ruffians,  but  on  producing  a  pass  which  Rat- 
cliffe  had  given  her,  they  led  the  way  to  a  barn, 
where  she  found  Meg  Murdockson  and  her 
daughter,  and,  during  the  night,  overheard  a  con- 
versation, from  which  she  learnt  that  Robertson 
had  deserted  Madge  for  Effie.  The  next  morn- 
ing Jeanie  gathered  fuller  particulars  from  Madge's 
rambling  outbursts,  and  they  came  to  Sir  Edmund's 
church.  Having  parted  with  her  crazed  companion, 
Jeanie  had  an  interview  with  the  rector,  and  was 
then  shown  into  a  room,  where  Robertson  proved 
to  be  his  son.  In  a  conversation  which  followed, 
George  Staunton  related  all  his  misdeeds ;  and, 
having  declined  to  tell  her  errand  to  his  father, 
she  proceeded  on  her  journey,  and  reached  London 
without  any  further  adventure. 

Having    found   her   relation,   Mrs   Glass,  JeamV 


92  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

obtained  admission  to  the  Duke  of  Argyle,  to 
whom  she  delivered  Butler's  letter,  which  con- 
tained a  testimonial  that  an  ancestor  of  his  had 
saved  the  life  of  his  grace's  grandfather,  and  he 
promised  that  he  would  do  his  best  for  her.  Two 
days  afterwards  Mr  Archibald  came  to  escort  her 
to  the  duke,  whose  chariot  was  in  waiting,  and 
with  whom  she  travelled  to  the  garden  of  the 
royal  lodge  at  Richmond,  where  she  was  allowed 
to  plead  for  her  sister's  pardon  with  Queen  Caro- 
line. In  simple  but  pathetic  sentences  she  ap- 
pealed with  such  success  that  the  queen  assured 
her  she  should  not  want  her  warm  intercession 
with  His  Majesty,  and  placed  in  her  hand  a 
housewife,  containing  a  bill  for  fifty  pounds,  as 
a  memento  of  their  interview.  She  at  once  wrote 
the  joyful  news  to  George  Staunton,  her  father 
and  Butler ;  and  then  the  duke  called  to  tell 
her  that  the  pardon  had  been  granted,  with  the 
qualification  that  Effie  should  banish  herself  from 
Scotland  for  fourteen  years.  He  also  arranged 
that  Jeanie  should  return  under  the  care  of  Mr 
Archibald  and  Mrs  Button,  and  presented  her 
to  his  duchess  and  daughters.  As  the  travellers 
approached  Carlisle  a  woman  was  being  hanged 
as  a  witch,  and  presently  Madge  Wildfire  clung 
to  their  carriage,  entreating  to  be  allowed  to  cut 
down  her  mother.  She  was,  however,  seized  and 
ducked  in  a  pool  by  the  mob,  and  then  carried 
to  the  hospital,  where  Jeanie  was  with  her  when 
she  died. 

In  compliance  with  the  duke's  wish,  instead  of 
going    direct    to    Edinburgh,    they    proceeded    to 


HEART   OF   MID-LOTHIAN  93 

Roseneath,  where  old  Deans  welcomed  back  his 
daughter,  and  she  learnt  that  her  sister  had  dis- 
appeared with  Staunton.  She  was,  however,  con- 
soled on  hearing  that  his  grace  had  engaged  her 
father  to  superintend  a  farm  in  Dumbartonshire, 
and  nominated  Butler  to  the  neighbouring  kirk 
of  Knocktarlitie.  After  an  entertainment  on  the 
occasion  of  his  ordination,  as  Jeanie  lingered  alone 
by  the  seashore,  she  was  embraced  by  Effie,  who 
had  come  with  her  lover  to  announce  their  marri- 
age and  say  farewell.  The  minister's  wedding 
soon  followed  ;  and  five  years  afterwards  came  a 
letter  from  Lady  Staunton,  who  was  moving  in 
the  highest  society  in  London,  but  in  constant 
fear  of  the  events  of  her  early  life  transpiring. 
One  day  Mrs  Butler,  whose  only  unhappiness 
arose  from  the  religious  differences  between  her 
father  and  husband,  discovered  in  her  children's 
hands  a  broad-sheet  containing  the  dying  confes- 
sion of  Meg  Murdockson,  which  strengthened  her 
belief  that  her  sister's  child  was  living;  and  the 
same  afternoon  the  Captain  of  Knockdunder 
brought  her  a  visitor,  who  proved  to  be  Effie. 
Sir  George  was  on  his  way  to  the  manse  with 
Butler  when  he  was  shot  in  a  skirmish  by  his 
son,  who,  Ratcliffe  ascertained,  had  been  sold  to 
a  ruffian  named  Donocha  Dhu,  and  trained  to 
a  life  of  robbery  and  violence. 

The  secret  was  kept  from  his  mother,  who 
after  a  while,  sought  solace  for  an  aching  heart 
by  resuming  her  place  in  the  world  of  fashion, 
and  eventually  died  in  the  convent  where  she 
had  received  her  post-nuptial  education. 


WA VERLEY 


Principal  Characters 


Sin  EYKRAKD  WAVKRLEY,  of 
\\'\ii\'rley  Honour,  a  Tory. 

His  brother,  RICHARD,  a  Whig. 

His  sister,  RACHEL. 

His  nephew,  EDWARD,  an  officer 
of  English  dragoons. 

MR  PEMBROKE,  his  tutor. 

HUMPHREY   HOUGHTON',1  .--  <I: 

DUGAI.D  MAHONY,  I  S=  S 

JOHN  HODGES,  j  ^  £ 

Al.ICK  POLWARTH,  J^   ^ 

COSMO  COMYNE  BRADWARD- 
INE,  Baron  of  Tnlly-  Veolan. 

His  daughter,  ROSE. 

DAI  i. IE  MACWHEEBLE,  his 
steward. 

DAVID  GELLATLEY,  his  Intller. 

His  wife,  JANET. 

COLONEL  GARDINER,  com- 
mander of  Edward's  regiment. 

MR  FALCONER,  of  Balata- 
whapple,  a  Whig  laird. 

FERGUS   MAC!VOR,  VICH  IAN 


His  sister,  FLORA. 
CALLUM  BEG,  his  page. 

CAT.', LKKN, 

EVAN      DHU      MACCOMBICH, 

Mac  Ivor  s  lieutenant. 
DONALD  BEN  ~Lv.\*i,afi-ccln>oter. 
His  daughter,  ALICE. 
EBENEXER  CRUICKSHAXKS,  an 

innkeeper  and  guide. 
REV.    MR   MORTON,   a  Presby- 
terian minister. 
MAJOR  MELVILLE,  a  justice  of 

the  peace. 
MR  GILFILLAN,  a  Cameraman 

leader. 
CHARLES  EDWARD,  THE  YOUNG 

PRETENDER. 
COLONEL  TAI.BOT,  a  friend  of 

Sir  Everard. 
LADY    EMILY    BLANDEVILLE, 

his  wife. 
RUTHVEN,  a  pedlar. 


VOHR,  a  Highland  chieftain. 
Highland  clansmen,  a  blacksmith  and  his  wife,  English  army,  High- 
land army,  a  farmer  and  his  family,  clergymen,  high  sheriff, 
servants,  etc. 

Period,  1745.      Localities:  Scotland  and  England. 


EDWARD  WAVERLEY,  who  had  been  brought  up 
as  his  uncle's  heir,  was  on  a  visit  to  Bradwardine 
of  Tully- Veolan  and  his  daughter,  when  all  their 
cows  were  driven  off  by  armed  Highlanders,  in 

94 


WAVERLEY  95 

consequence  of  the  baron  having  ceased  paying 
blackmail  to  Vich  Ian  Vohr.  During  the  day 
Evan  Dhu  arrived  to  compromise  the  matter, 
and  invited  Waverley  to  spend  a  few  days  with 
him  in  the  mountains.  Having  made  acquaint- 
ance with  Ben  Lean  and  Alice,  he  was  met  by 
the  chieftain,  who  entertained  him  at  his  High- 
land mansion,  and  introduced  him  to  his  sister 
Flora.  After  spending  three  weeks  most  enjoy- 
ably  in  her  society,  he  went  with  Fergus  to  a 
stag  hunt,  in  which  a  large  gathering  of  the  clan 
took  part,  and,  having  been  disabled  by  a  severe 
sprain,  he  was  left  under  the  care  of  an  old  leech 
and  Callum  Beg,  while  the  chieftain  and  his  fol- 
lowers proceeded  on  a  distant  expedition.  On 
returning  to  his  host's  house  he  found  several 
letters  awaiting  him,  and  among  them  an  order 
to  join  his  regiment.  In  compliance,  however, 
with  his  father's  and  uncle's  desire,  he  resigned 
his  commission,  and  then  learnt  from  a  newspaper 
that  he  was  already  superseded.  This  cleared  the 
way  for  him  to  declare  his  love  to  Flora,  who 
shared  her  brother's  attachment  to  the  Stuarts ; 
but  she  advised  him  to  seek  a  more  suitable  wife, 
and  to  serve  the  cause  of  his  exiled  sovereign 
among  his  own  countrymen. 

Next  morning  a  letter  from  Rose  informed  him 
that  the  baron  had  joined  the  rising  against  the 
Hanoverian  dynasty,  and  he  started  for  Edinburgh, 
attended  as  far  as  a  lowland  village  by  Callum 
Beg,  who  secured  him  the  services  of  Cruick- 
shanks.  On  their  way  southwards  he  was  seized 
as  a  Jacobite,  and,  at  Mr  Morton's  suggestion, 


96  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

taken  before  Major  Melville,  who  handed  him 
over  to  Gilfillan  to  be  lodged  in  Stirling  Castle. 
He  was,  however,  rescued  by  two  Highlanders, 
and  after  being  nursed  through  a  fever  by  old 
Janet,  was  escorted  to  the  capital,  where  he  was 
introduced  by  Fergus  to  the  Pretender,  who  ac- 
cepted his  allegiance,  and  girded  him  with  the 
sword  he  was  wearing.  At  Holyrood  he  met 
Flora  and  Rose;  and,  having  joined  the  Highland 
army,  he  distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of 
Prestonpans,  and  saved  the  life  of  Colonel  Talbot, 
from  whom  he  learnt  that  his  father  and  uncle 
were  attainted  of  treason.  He  also  ascertained 
the  circumstances  under  which  he  had  incurred 
the  displeasure  of  Colonel  Gardiner.  Some  weeks 
afterwards  he  obtained  a  pass  for  Colonel  Talbot, 
who  was  his  prisoner,  to  join  his  sick  wife,  and 
Charles  Edward  resolved  to  advance  into  Eng- 
land. During  the  march  the  prince  had  to  adjust 
a  quarrel  between  Maclvor  and  Waverley  relating 
to  Rose ;  and  at  a  council  of  war  it  was  decided 
to  return  northwards,  on  which  Fergus  declared 
he  should  be  dead  or  a  captive  before  the  morrow. 
At  sunset  they  encountered  a  troop  of  English 
cavalry,  and  the  chieftain  was  surrounded.  Edward 
escaped  to  a  farmhouse,  where  he  heard  of  his 
father's  death,  and  made  his  way  to  London. 

Acting,  however,  on  Colonel  Talbot's  advice,  he 
returned  to  Scotland  just  after  the  battle  of  Cul- 
loden  ;  and,  on  reaching  Tully-Veolan,  he  was  led 
by  old  Gellatley  to  a  hut,  where  the  baron  was  in 
hiding  with  Janet,  from  whom  he  learnt  how 
greatly  Rose  had  secretly  helped  him,  and  that 


WAVERLEY  97 

she  was  safe.  He  also  heard  that  Fergus  was 
in  Carlisle  jail,  and  Flora  with  a  lady  there.  In 
a  few  days  the  colonel  sent  him  protections  for 
himself  and  Bradwardine,  upon  which  he  at  once 
proposed  for  the  baron's  daughter,  and  was  ac- 
cepted. The  next  day  they  went  to  see  her,  and 
VVaverley's  anxiety  now  was  the  fate  of  Vich  Ian 
Vohr  and  his  foster  brother  Evan  Dhu.  He  sup- 
plied money  for  their  defence,  but  ere  he  reached 
Carlisle  they  had  been  found  guilty  of  treason. 
At  an  interview  with  Flora  she  reproached  herself 
with  having  spurred  her  brother  to  his  ruin,  and 
sent  Rose  a  chain  of  diamonds  as  a  wedding  gift. 
On  the  morning  of  the  execution  Waverley  was 
allowed  to  take  leave  of  Fergus,  who  begged  him 
to  befriend  his  clan,  and  bravely  met  his  fate. 
Sir  Everard  and  his  sister  received  their  nephew 
as  a  hero  on  his  return  to  Waverley  Honour,  and 
his  marriage  was  celebrated  as  soon  as  the  legal 
settlements  were  completed.  The  baron  was  then 
invited  to  accompany  the  bride  and  bridegroom  to 
his  estate  at  Tully-Veolan,  which  he  was  led  to 
suppose  had  been  purchased  by  Colonel  Talbot; 
but  on  arriving  there  he  found  that  Waverley  had 
advanced  the  money  to  place  him  in  full  posses- 
sion again,  and  had  even  succeeded  in  recovering 
his  ancestral  drinking-cup,  which  had  become  the 
spoil  of  King  George's  soldiers. 


G 


REDGA  UNTLET 


Principal  Characters 


MR  DARSIE  LATIMER,  after- 
wards SIR  ARTHUR  DARSIE 
REDGAUNTLET. 

MR  SAUNDERS  FAIRFORD,  a 
Writer  to  the  Signet. 

His  son,  ALAN,  an  advocate. 

MR  HERRIES  OF  BIRRENS- 
WORK,  alias  the  LAIRD  OF 
REDGAUNTLET. 

His  niece,  LILIAS. 

CRISTAL  NIXON,  \    their  ser- 

MABEL  MOFFAT,  /       vanls. 

BENJIE,  a  village  lad. 

JOSHUA  GEDDES,  of  Mount 
Sharon,  a  Quaker  tacksman. 

His  sister,  RACHEL. 

WILLIE  STEENSON,  a  blind 
fiddler. 

PETER  PEEBLES,  Alans  first 
client. 

MR  WILLIAM  CROSBIE,  Provost 


SQUIRE  Fox  LEY,  of  Foxley  Hall 
Cumberland. 

MASTER  NICHOLAS  FAGGOT,  his 
clerk. 

MR  PETER  MAXWELL,  of 
Summerirees,  alias  PATE-IN- 
PERIL. 

TAM  TRUMBULL,  of  Annan,  a 
contraband  trader. 

NANTY  EWART,  captain  of  the 
'  Jumping  Jenny.'1 

FATHER  CRACKENTHORP,  a 
Cumberland  innkeeper  and 
smuggler. 

THE  SISTERS  ARTHURET,  of 
Fair  ladies'  House. 

FATHER  BUONAVENTURE,  after- 
wards THE  YOUNG  PRETEN- 
DER. 

GENERAL  CAMPBELL,  an  Eng- 
lish officer. 


of  Dumfries. 

A  fishers'  merry-making,  judges  and  advocates  of  Supreme  Court  at 
Edinburgh,  armed  fishermen,  smugglers,  guests  at  the  inn,  con- 
ference of  Jacobite  leaders,  servants,  etc. 

Period,  1 763.     Localities  :  Scotland  and  Cumberland. 

DARSIE  had  been  Alan's  favourite  schoolfellow, 
and,  to  please  his  son,  Mr  Fairford  had  consented 
that  the  youth,  who  received  an  ample  allowance 
on  the  understanding  that  he  was  to  make  no  in- 
quiries respecting  his  family  until  he  completed  his 

98 


KEDGAUNTLET  99 

twenty-fifth  year,  should  live  with  them.  Alan 
was  studying  for  the  law,  but  his  companion  had 
started  for  his  first  country  ramble,  and  the  story 
commences  with  a  long  correspondence  between 
them.  As  he  returned  from  fishing  in  the  Solway 
Firth,  with  Benjie  as  his  instructor,  Darsie  was 
overtaken  by  the  tide,  and  carried  by  Mr  Herries, 
dressed  as  a  fisherman,  on  horseback  to  a  cottage, 
where  Lilias  said  grace  at  supper-time  ;  and  next 
morning  he  was  placed  under  the  guidance  of 
Joshua  Geddes.  The  Quaker,  who  was  part  owner 
of  some  fishing  nets  in  the  river,  invited  him  to 
spend  a  few  days  at  his  house  ;  and  while  there 
he  heard  from  Alan  that  a  young  lady  had  called 
to  warn  him  that  his  friend  was  in  considerable 
danger,  and  to  urge  that  he  should  at  once  return 
to  Edinburgh.  A  letter,  however,  from  old  Fair- 
ford  determined  him  not  to  do  so  ;  and  having  made 
acquaintance  with  the  blind  fiddler,  who  told  him 
a  tale  of  the  Redgauntlet  family,  Darsie  went  with 
him  to  a  fishers'  merry-making,  where  he  danced 
with  Lilias,  who  reproached  him  for  leading  an 
idle  life,  and  begged  him  to  leave  the  neighbour- 
hood. 

Mr  Fairford  had  arranged  that  Peter  Peebles,  an 
eccentric  suitor,  should  be  his  son's  first  client,  and 
he  was  pleading  the  cause  before  the  Lords  Ordin- 
ary when  his  father,  by  mistake,  handed  him  a 
letter  from  Mr  Crosbie,  announcing  that  Darsie 
had  mysteriously  disappeared.  Alan  instantly 
rushed  out  of  court,  and  started  in  search  of  his 
friend,  who  had  accompanied  the  Quaker  to  await 
an  attack  on  his  fishing  station,  and  been  made 


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prisoner  by  the  rioters,  of  whom  Mr  Herries  was 
the  leader.  After  being  nearly  drowned,  and  re- 
covering from  a  fever,  he  awoke  in  a  strange 
room,  to  which  he  was  confined  for  several  days, 
when  he  was  visited  by  his  captor,  and  conducted 
by  him  to  an  interview  with  Squire  Foxley,  who, 
acting  as  a  magistrate,  declined  to  interfere  with 
Mr  Herries'  guardianship.  As  the  squire  was  leav- 
ing, however,  Mr  Peebles  arrived  to  apply  for  a 
warrant  against  Alan  for  throwing  up  his  brief, 
and  startled  Mr  Herries  by  recognising  him  as  a 
Redgauntlet  and  an  unpardoned  Jacobite.  Darsie 
obtained  a  partial  explanation  from  him,  and  was 
told  to  prepare  for  a  journey  disguised  as  a  woman. 
Meanwhile,  Alan  had  applied  to  the  provost,  and, 
having  obtained  from  his  wife's  relation,  Mr  Max- 
well, a  letter  to  Herries,  he  started  for  Annan, 
where,  under  the  guidance  of  Trumbull,  he  took 
ship  for  Cumberland.  On  landing  at  Craken- 
thorp's  inn,  he  was  transported  by  Nanty  Ewart, 
and  a  gang  of  smugglers,  to  Fair-ladies'  House, 
where  he  was  nursed  through  a  fever,  and  intro- 
duced to  Father  Buonaventure.  After  being  closely 
questioned  and  detained  for  a  few  days,  he  was 
allowed  to  return  with  a  guide  to  the  inn. 

Darsie  was  also  travelling  thither  with  Herries 
and  his  followers,  when  he  discovered  that  Lilias, 
who  accompanied  them,  was  his  sister,  and  learnt 
from  her  his  own  real  name  and  rank.  He  was 
also  urged  by  his  uncle  to  join  a  rising  in  favour 
of  the  Pretender ;  and,  having  hesitated  to  do  so, 
was  detained  in  custody  when  they  reached  their 
destination,  where  Alan,  as  well  as  other  visitors 


REDGAUNTLET  IOI 

and  several  of  the  neighbouring  gentry,  had  already 
arrived.  He  was  then  introduced  to  a  conference 
of  Charles  Edward's  adherents,  and  afterwards  to 
the  prince  himself,  who  refused  to  agree  to  their 
conditions,  and  decided  to  abandon  the  contem- 
plated attempt  in  his  favour.  Ewart  was,  accord- 
ingly, ordered  to  have  his  brig  in  readiness,  when 
Nixon  suggested  that  he  should  turn  traitor,  upon 
which  they  fought  and  killed  each  other.  Sir 
Arthur  now  learned  that  Fairford  and  Gcdclcs 
were  in  the  house  ;  but,  before  he  was  allowed  to 
see  them,  they  had  been  shown  into  the  room 
where  Lilias  was  waiting,  when  Alan  became 
aware  that  his  fair  visitor  at  Edinburgh  was  his 
friend's  sister,  and  heard  from  her  lips  all  the 
particulars  of  her  brother's  history.  Their  con- 
versation was  interrupted  by  the  entrance  of 
Bcnjie,  in  whose  pocket  a  paper  was  found  in- 
dicating that  Nixon  had  communicated  with  the 
Government  ;  and,  during  the  confusion  which  en- 
sued, General  Campbell  arrived,  and  announced 
that  he  was  sufficiently  supported  with  cavalry 
and  infantry.  His  instructions,  however,  from 
King  George  were  to  allow  all  concerned  in  the 
plot  to  disperse,  and  he  intimated  that  as  many 
as  wished  might  embark  in  the  vessel  which  was 
in  waiting. 

The  Pretender  was,  accordingly,  led  by  the 
Laird  of  Rcdgauntlet  to  the  beach,  and  Lilias 
offered  to  accompany  her  uncle  in  his  voluntary 
exile.  This,  however,  he  would  not  permit,  and, 
after  an  exchange  of  courtesies  with  the  general, 
the  prince  departed  amidst  the  tears  and  sobs  of 


IO2     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

the  last  supporters  of  his  cause,  and  henceforward 
the  term  Jacobite  ceased  to  be  a  party  name.  Lilias, 
of  course,  married  Alan,  and  Herries,  who  had 
asked  his  nephew's  pardon  for  attempting  to  make 
a  rebel  of  him,  threw  away  his  sword,  and  became 
the  prior  of  a  monastery. 


GUY  MANNERING 


Principal  Characters 


MR  GUY  MANNERING,  after- 
wards a  colonel  in  the  Indian 
army. 

MRS  MANNFJIING,  his -wife. 

Their  daughter,  JULIA. 

LIEUTENANT  ARCHER,  a 
favourite  of  Mrs  Mannering. 

MR  GODFREY  BERTRAM,  of 
Ellangowan. 

His  sister,  MARGARET  BER- 
TRAM. 

His  son,  HARRY,  alias  VAN- 
PEEST  BROWN. 

His  daughter,  LUCY. 

MR  CHARLES  HAZLEWOOD,  her 
lover. 

DOMINIE  SAMPSON,  a  village 
schoolmaster,  and  afterwards 
Harry' 's  tutor. 

MEG  MERRILIES,  a  gipsy. 

GILBERT  GLOSSIN,  an  attorney. 


DIRK  HATTERAICK,  a  Dutch 

smuggler. 

MR  FRANK  KENNEDY,  a  super- 
visor of  Excise. 

MR  MACMORLAN,  Sheriff- 
Substitute  of  Dumfries. 

MRS  MACMORLAN,  his  wife. 

MR  AND  MRS  MERVYNj/r/ewa'.i- 
of  Colonel  Mannering. 

DANDIE  DINMONT,  a  farmer. 

MRS  MACCANDLISH,  hostess  of 
'  The  Gordon  Arms '  at 
Kippletringan . 

DEACON  BEARSCLIFF,  a  villager. 

BROWN,  a  smuggler. 

TIB  MUMPS,  mistress  of  a  public- 
house. 

MAcGuFFOG,  a  constable. 

TOD  GABRIEL,  a  fox-hunter. 

MR  FAULUS  PLEYDELL,  an 
advocate  from  Edinburgh. 


SCROW,  his  clerk. 

Smugglers t  constables,  soldiers  and  villagers. 

Period,  1 765.     Localities :  Scotland,  Cumberland,  Holland  and 
India. 

Guv  MANNERING,  after  leaving  Oxford,  had  been 
Mr  Godfrey  Bertram's  guest  on  the  night  of  his 
son's  birth,  when  he  made  acquaintance  with 
Dominic  Sampson,  and  with  Meg  Merrilies,  who 
came  to  tell  the  infant's  fortune.  The  young 
student,  however,  offered  to  do  this  from  the  stars, 
and  predicted  that  three  periods  of  the  boy's  life 

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104    A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

would  be  very  hazardous.  Five  years  afterwards 
he  was  kidnapped  while  riding  with  Kennedy, 
whose  dead  body  was  found  on  the  beach  ;  and 
the  same  night,  after  giving  birth  to  a  daughter, 
Mrs  Bertram  left  her  husband  a  widower. 

Sixteen  more  years  had  elapsed  when  Colonel 
Mannering  returned  from  India  just  in  time  to  be 
present  at  his  friend's  death,  and  Glossin,  who  had 
been  concerned  in  Harry's  abduction,  became  the 
possessor  of  the  Ellangowan  estate.  Lucy  and  the 
dominie  accepted  the  hospitality  of  Mr  and  Mrs 
MacMorlan ;  but  the  colonel,  having  learnt  from 
Mr  Mervyn,  at  whose  house  his  daughter  was 
staying,  that  she  had  a  lover,  who  afterwards 
proved  to  be  Brown,  hired  a  house  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Kippletringan,  and  invited  Miss  Ber- 
tram to  be  Julia's  companion,  and  the  tutor  his 
librarian. 

As  he  was  following  Miss  Mannering  to  Scot- 
land, Brown,  whom  the  colonel  believed  he  had 
shot  in  a  duel  in  India,  dined  with  Dinmont  at  an 
inn,  where  he  also  met  Meg  Merrilies,  who  recog- 
nised him  ;  and,  having  rescued  the  farmer  from 
some  robbers,  he  spent  a  few  days  at  his  house. 
Proceeding  on  his  journey,  he  came  to  a  ruined 
hut,  in  which  the  gipsy  was  tending  a  dying  man  ; 
and,  hidden  by  her,  he  saw  a  gang  of  ruffians 
divide  the  contents  of  his  portmanteau,  and  bury 
their  comrade.  When  they  had  gone  she  pointed 
out  his  road,  and  gave  him  a  purse,  exacting  at 
the  same  time  a  promise  that  he  would  come  with 
her  whenever  she  called  for  him. 

Writing  to  a  friend,  Julia  made  great  fun  of  the 


GUY   MANNERING  IO5 

dominie's  peculiarities,  and  mentioned  Lucy's  dis- 
couragement of  young  Hazlewood  because  she 
had  no  fortune.  In  her  next  letter  she  described 
an  attack  upon  their  house  at  Woodbournc  by 
smugglers  ;  and  in  another  the  sudden  appear- 
ance of  Brown,  who  had  wounded  Ilazlcwood  and 
escaped.  Glossin,  now  a  justice  of  the  peace,  was 
indefatigable  in  endeavouring  to  trace  him,  and 
heard  with  pleasure  that  MacGuffog  had  a  man  in 
custody.  He,  however,  was  Hattcraick,  in  whose 
smuggling  ventures  the  attorney  had  largely  shared, 
and  who  told  him  that  Harry  Bertram  was  in  the 
neighbourhood.  Having  connived  at  his  escape 
from  custody,  Glossin  met  him  in  a  cave,  and 
learnt  that  the  young  heir  had  been  carried  to 
Holland,  where  he  was  adopted  by  a  merchant 
named  Vanbeest,  who  afterwards  sent  him  to 
India.  The  attorney  then  called  at  Woodbournc 
to  announce  that  Miss  Bertram  had  left  her 
fortune  to  Lucy,  and  the  colonel  at  once  started 
with  the  dominie  to  Edinburgh,  to  place  the 
matter  in  Mr  Pleydell's  hands. 

Harry  had  retreated  to  Cumberland,  but  he 
managed  to  correspond  with  Julia  ;  and,  having 
returned  to  Ellangowan,  he  was  wandering  among 
the  ruins  when  he  encountered  Glossin,  who  had 
him  arrested  for  shooting  at  Ha/clewood,  and 
lodged  in  the  bridewell  adjoining  the  custom- 
house at  Portanferry.  Here  he  was  visited  by 
Dinmont,  who  had  heard  from  Gabriel  of  his  being 
in  trouble,  and  was  allowed  to  pass  the  night  with 
him.  Mcamvhile  Meg  Mcrrilics  had  sent  a  paper 
to  the  colonel  by  the  dominie,  and  urged  young 


106     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVEKLEY  NOVELS 

Hazlewood  to  cause  the  soldiers  who  had  been 
withdrawn  from  Portanferry  to  be  sent  back  there 
instantly.  During  the  night  the  custom-house 
was  fired  by  a  gang  of  ruffians  ;  but  one  of  them 
helped  Bertram  and  his  friend  to  escape,  and  led 
them  to  a  carriage,  which  conveyed  them  to 
Woodbourne,  where  Mr  Pleydell  had  previously 
arrived.  Having  been  recognised  by  the  colonel 
as  Brown,  and  questioned  by  the  lawyer,  his 
identity  as  the  heir  of  Ellangowan  was  established, 
and  he  was  hugged  by  the  dominie  as  '  his  little 
Harry.'  The  next  morning  Lucy  embraced  her 
long-lost  brother,  and  Julia  acknowledged  him  as 
her  lover. 

As  he  was  walking  with  them,  Meg  Merrilies 
sent  Dinmont  to  claim  Bertram's  compliance  with 
his  promise  to  her  ;  and,  followed  also  by  Hazle- 
wood, she  led  the  way  to  a  room  where  she  armed 
them,  and  thence  to  the  smugglers'  cave,  where, 
after  a  struggle,  in  which  the  gipsy  was  mortally 
wounded,  they  seized  Hatteraick  and  handed  him 
over  to  the  village  constables.  Meg's  dying  reve- 
lations furnished  sufficient  evidence  for  arresting 
Glossin,  who,  by  bribing  the  jailer,  obtained  access 
to  the  smuggler's  cell,  where  he  was  found  strangled, 
and  his  accomplice  in  crime  committed  suicide. 
Having  recovered  the  property  of  his  ancestors, 
Harry  Bertram  was  able  to  discharge  all  his  father's 
debts,  and,  with  the  help  of  Julia's  dowry,  to  erect 
a  new  mansion,  which  contained  a  snug  chamber 
called  '  Mr  Sampson's  apartment.'  His  aunt's 
estate  also  reverted  to  him,  but  he  resigned  it  to 
his  sister  on  her  marriage  with  Ilazlewood. 


THE  HIGHLAND    WIDOW 


Principal  Characters 


HAMISH   MACTAVISII    MOHR, 

an  outlaw. 
ELSPAT,  his  vaifa. 
HAMISH  BEAN,  their  son. 
MILES  PHADRAICK,  a  farmer. 


REV.  MICHAEL  TYRIE,  a  Pres- 
byterian minister. 

GREEN  COLIN,  captain  oj 
Hamish  Bearfs  regiment. 

ALLAN   BREAK  CAMERON,  his 


sergeant. 
Private  soldiers,  Highland  women,  a  regimental  parade. 

Period,  1775.     Locality :  Scotland,  near  Oban. 

HAMISII  MOHR,  a  daring  freebooter,  had  met  his 
death  in  an  encounter  with  the  Saxon  red-coats, 
by  whom  the  Highlands  were  garrisoned  after  the 
battle  of  Culloden.  His  wife,  who  had  shared  all 
his  dangers,  strove  to  inspire  their  only  son  with 
his  father's  love  of  adventure  and  hatred  of  servile 
toil ;  but  as  he  grew  up  the  lad  evinced  no  inclina- 
tion for  lawless  pursuits,  and,  unable  to  endure  his 
mother's  taunts  at  his  want  of  spirit,  enlisted  in 
one  of  the  regiments  formed  in  Scotland  to  oppose 
the  French  in  the  American  war  of  independ- 
ence. Before  sailing  he  sent  her  some  money  by 
Phadraick,  and  returned  to  spend  a  few  days  with 
her,  when  she  fiercely  reproached  him  for  daring 
to  act  in  opposition  to  her  will,  and,  failing  to  alter 
his  purpose,  drugged  his  parting-cup,  thus  causing 
him  to  exceed  his  furlough,  and  render  himself 

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IO8  A   KEY   TO   THE   \VAVERLEY   NOVELS 

liable  to  the  lash  as  a  deserter.  She  then  urged 
him  to  flee  to  her  kinsmen,  while  she  baffled  his 
pursuers  ;  but  he  resolved  to  await  the  arrival  of 
the  sergeant  and  men  of  his  regiment  who,  he  felt 
sure,  would  be  sent  to  arrest  him.  They  came, 
and,  on  being  summoned  to  surrender,  he  shot  the 
sergeant  dead.  The  other  soldiers  secured  him, 
and  he  was  marched  as  a  prisoner  to  Dumbarton 
castle,  where  he  was  tried  by  court-martial  and 
condemned  to  be  shot.  His  captain  and  a  Presby- 
terian minister  interceded  for  him  ;  but  the  Eng- 
lish general  in  command  was  determined  to  make 
an  example,  and  the  next  morning  his  sentence 
was  carried  out  in  the  presence  of  his  comrades. 

His  mother,  who  had  attempted  to  follow  him, 
was  met  by  the  minister  wandering  in  a  wild  glen, 
and  on  hearing  her  son's  fate,  she  uttered  terrible 
imprecations,  and  renounced  all  further  intercourse 
with  the  world.  She  lived,  however,  for  many 
years  in  her  lonely  cottage,  regarded  with  awe 
and  pity  by  her  neighbours  as  the  victim  of 
destiny,  rather  than  the  voluntary  cause  of  her 
son's  death  and  her  own  wretchedness.  At  length, 
while  two  women,  who  had  been  set  to  watch  her 
last  moments,  were  sleeping,  she  disappeared  from 
her  bed,  and  was  never  heard  of  again. 


THE  SURGEON'S  DAUGHTER 


Principal  Characters 


MR  GIDEON  GRAY,  of  Middle- 
mas,  a  village  surgeon. 

His  wife,  JEAN. 

Their  daughter,  MENIE. 

MR  RICHARD  TRESHAM,  after- 
wards GENERAL  WITHER- 

INGTON. 

MDLLE.   ZILIA  DE   MONCJADA, 

afterwards  his  wife. 
Their  son,  RICHARD. 
MATHIAS  DE  MONCADA,  a 

Portuguese  Jew. 
MR  LAW  FORD,    7'uwn  Clerk  of 

Middlemas. 

TOM  HILLARY,  his  apprentice. 
Village  nurses,   king's   mcssenge 


ADAM    HARTLEY,    Mr   Gray'! 

apprentice. 
MR     M'Frrrocii,     a    dancing 

master. 

CAPTAIN  SEKLKNCOOPER,  Gov- 
ernor of  Military  Hospital  at 

Ryde. 
BARAK  EL  HADJI,  an  assent  of 

Hyder  Ali. 
MADAME  DE  MONTREVILLE,  a 

Beg un  i. 
PAUPIAH,  steward  to  the  British 

resident. 

HYDER  ALI,  Rajah  of  Mysore. 
TiPi'OO  SAIU,  his  son. 


messenger,  servants,  English  residents  at 
Madras,  natives,  courtiers  and  officers  of  Tippoo  Saib's  house- 
hold, retinue  of  the  Begum. 

Period,  1780.     Localities:  Fifeshirc,  Isle  of  IV ight  and  India. 

THE  surgeon's  services  were  unexpectedly  sought 
by  Richard's  parents,  who  arrived  in  the  village, 
as  strangers,  just  before  his  birth.  The  following 
day  the  father  left,  and  within  a  month  the  mother 
was  carried  off  by  her  father,  who  persuaded  Mr 
Gray  to  undertake  the  care  and  education  of  the 
boy,  and  deposited  a  thousand  pounds  in  trust 
for  him.  Four  years  afterwards  Mrs  Gray  died 
in  giving  birth  to  a  daughter,  and  the  two  children 
were  brought  up  together.  At  the  age  of  fourteen 

109 


110     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

Richard,  who  had  been  led  by  his  nurse  to  believe 
himself  born  to  wealth  and  honour,  was  informed 
by  his  guardian  of  his  real  position,  and,  after 
consulting  with  Mr  Lawford  and  his  companion 
Hillary,  he  decided  to  remain  an  inmate  of  Mr 
Gray's  family  as  his  apprentice,  with  Hartley  as 
a  fellow  pupil.  As  they  grew  up  both  the  young 
men  fell  in  love  with  Menie,  and  when  the  doctor 
proposed  that  Hartley  should  become  his  partner, 
and  endeavour  to  secure  her  affections,  it  trans- 
pired that  she  and  Richard  were  already  secretly 
engaged.  Hartley  determined  to  make  a  voyage 
to  India,  and  learnt  with  astonishment  that  his 
rival,  at  the  instigation  of  Hillary,  who  was  now 
a  captain  in  the  Company's  service,  intended  to 
spend  two  years  there  before  marrying,  in  the 
hope  of  realising  a  fortune. 

Having  obtained  the  money  left  by  his  grand- 
father in  Mr  Gray's  hands,  and  enlisted  as  a 
recruit,  he  sailed  from  Edinburgh  with  his  friend 
for  the  depot  at  Ryde ;  but,  on  recovering  from 
a  drinking  bout  before  landing,  he  found  himself 
in  the  military  hospital,  deserted  by  Hillary,  and 
robbed  of  all  his  belongings.  Hartley,  however, 
was  acting  as  one  of  the  medical  officers,  and, 
having  earned  the  gratitude  of  the  commandant, 
General  Witherington,  by  successfully  treating  two 
of  his  children  who  were  suffering  from  small-pox, 
was  able  to  obtain  a  commission  for  his  fellow- 
student.  The  general  and  his  wife  had  discovered 
that  Richard  was  their  first-born,  and  when  he 
was  introduced  to  them  the  shock  of  hearing  him 
describe  himself  as  an  orphan,  deserted  by  his 


THE  SURGEON'S  DAUGHTER  1 1 1 

parents,  caused  the  death  of  his  mother,  upon 
which  the  father  was  seized  with  a  fit  of  fren/y, 
and  on  recovering  could  not  face  his  son  again. 
Hartley  had,  however,  been  previously  entrusted 
with  his  history,  as  well  as  a  gift  of  money  for 
him,  and  they  sailed  together  for  Madras.  Hav- 
ing killed  his  colonel  in  a  duel,  Richard  fled 
to  the  court  of  a  native  prince,  while  Hartley 
obtained  great  reputation  as  a  medical  prac- 
titioner. One  of  his  patients  was  Barak  el  Hadji, 
who  promised  him  his  influence  with  Hyder  Ali, 
should  he  at  any  time  need  it. 

Some  months  afterwards  he  was  startled  by  the 
presence  of  Menie  Gray  at  a  public  breakfast, 
chaperoned  by  the  Begum,  who,  he  learnt,  was 
the  wealthy  widow  of  a  Rajah.  At  a  private 
interview  with  his  old  master's  daughter,  Hartley 
elicited  from  her  that  she  had  come  out  at 
Richard's  invitation  to  be  married,  and  was  on 
her  way  to  meet  him  in  Mysore.  Mistrusting 
her  lover,  he  offered  his  protection  should  she 
need  it,  and  the  next  day  he  received  a  note 
from  her  telling  him  she  was  sold  to  Tippoo  Saib. 
Unable  to  obtain  an  audience  of  the  governor, 
Hartley  resolved  to  solicit  the  intervention  of 
Ilyder  Ali,  and,  having  reached  Seringapatam, 
he  sought  the  aid  of  El  Hadji,  who  introduced 
him  to  another  Fakir  of  higher  rank.  Following 
his  directions,  he  accompanied  a  troop  of  native 
cavalry  to  Tippoo's  encampment  near  Bangalore, 
and  witnessed  his  return  thither,  escorted  by  a 
magnificent  bodyguard,  including  artillery  and 
elephants.  The  Begum,  who  had  previously 


112     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

arrived  with  her  retinue,  and  Menie  under  her 
protection,  was  at  once  invited  to  an  interview 
with  the  prince  in  his  garden  the  following  day. 
Accordingly  at  noon  the  discharge  of  cannon 
announced  that  he  had  left  his  palace  ;  and  on 
the  arrival  of  his  visitor,  attended  by  Richard 
as  her  principal  officer,  she  was  conducted  to  a 
cushion  on  his  right  hand.  An  attendant  then 
proclaimed  the  appointment  of  Richard  as  gover- 
nor of  the  city,  and  the  Begum  in  return  pre- 
sented Tippoo  with  the  litter  containing  Menie. 

The  old  Fakir,  however,  came  forward,  and, 
throwing  off  his  disguise,  ascended  the  throne  as 
Hyder  AH.  Having  reproved  his  son,  he  com- 
manded him  to  restore  the  gift  to  the  care  of 
Hartley,  but  allowed  the  ceremony  of  investiture 
to  proceed.  As  Richard,  however,  who  had 
plotted  with  Paupiah  to  betray  his  trust,  was 
about  to  mount  the  elephant  in  waiting  for  him, 
the  Rajah  made  a  sign,  upon  which  the  animal 
seized  him  by  the  neck  with  its  trunk,  and  crushed 
him  to  death  with  its  foot.  The  Begum  was  then 
ordered  to  bear  her  share  in  compensating  her 
intended  victim  for  the  indignity  she  had  suffered, 
and  afterwards  deprived  of  her  power  and  riches. 
Menie  returned  to  her  native  village,  and  the 
gallant  Hartley  died  from  a  distemper  caught  in 
the  courageous  pursuit  of  his  profession. 


THE  TAPESTRIED  CHAMBER 


Principal  Characters 


CF.NF.RAT,     BROWNE,    rf  turned 

frinii  the  American  war. 
THF,  LANDLORD  of  an  inn. 


LORD  WOODVILI.E,  of  H'wtfviUe 

Castle. 
TIFF,  APPARITION  OF  A  WOMAN. 


Visitors  at  the  castle,  servants. 
Period,  1 782.     Locality :  the  -west  of  England. 

THIS  is  a  ghost  story.  While  travelling  through 
the  western  counties,  the  general's  attention  was 
attracted  by  a  picturesquely  situated  old  castle, 
and,  on  inquiry  at  the  inn  where  he  changed 
horses,  he  learnt  that  its  owner  was  a  nobleman 
who  had  been  his  schoolfellow.  He  accordingly 
determined  to  call  upon  his  lordship ;  and,  having 
been  persuaded  to  be  his  guest  for  a  week,  he  was 
conducted  at  bedtime  to  an  old-fashioned  room, 
hung  with  tapestry,  but  comfortably  furnished,  and 
well  lighted  by  two  large  candles  and  a  blazing 
fire.  The  next  morning  Lord  Woodville  was  in- 
formed by  his  servant  that  the  general  had  been 
wandering  in  the  park  since  an  early  hour  and 
when  he  appeared  at  the  breakfast  table  his 
countenance  was  haggard,  his  clothes  carelessly 
put  on,  and  his  manner  abstracted  ;  moreover,  he 
announced  that  he  must  depart  immediately. 
Drawing  him  aside  from  the  other  visitors,  his 

H 


114  A   KEY   TO   TIIE   WAVERLEY   NOVELS 

host  pressed  him  for  an  explanation,  and,  after 
declaring  that  he  would  rather  face  a  battery  than 
recall  the  events  of  the  night,  he  reluctantly 
narrated  what  he  had  undergone. 

Just  as  he  was  falling  asleep  he  heard  the  rust- 
ling of  a  silk  gown,  and  the  tapping  of  high-heeled 
shoes,  and  then  the  figure  of  a  woman  passed 
between  the  bedstead  and  the  fireplace.  At  first 
her  back  was  towards  him,  but  she  slowly  turned, 
and  he  distinctly  saw  the  features  of  a  corpse, 
bearing  traces  of  the  most  hideous  passions.  He 
started  up,  and  she  sat  on  the  bed,  advancing  her 
face  within  half  a  yard  of  his,  upon  which  all  his 
courage  forsook  him  and  he  swooned.  On  re- 
covering his  senses  she  had  disappeared,  but  he 
was  afraid  to  move  until  daybreak,  when  he 
hurried  from  the  room  thoroughly  unnerved. 
Lord  Woodville  was  deeply  impressed,  for  the 
chamber  had  the  reputation  of  being  haunted ; 
and  as  he  conducted  the  general  through  his 
picture  gallery,  he  suddenly  started  as  he  caught 
sight  of  a  portrait,  exclaiming,  '  There  she  is ! ' 
and  it  proved  to  be  the  likeness  of  an  ancestress 
whose  crimes,  he  was  told,  had  been  too  horrible 
for  recital. 


THE  TWO  DROVERS 


Principal  Characters 


ROTUN     OlO     MACCOMBICH,    a 

Highland  drm>cr. 
JANKT  OF   TO.MAIIOURICH,  his 

aunt. 
HUGH  MORRISON  OK  C.I.ANAE, 

a  Lowland  drover. 


MR  IREI?Y,  a  Cumberland  squire. 

JOHN        Fl.KKCElHTMI'KlN,        his 

bailiff. 
RAT. 1'ii    HESKETT,   host  of  an 

alehouse. 
DAME  HESKETT,  his  wife. 


HARRY  WAKEFIELD,  an  Eng- 
lish drover. 
Company  at  the  alehouse,  constables,  judge  and  jury  at  Carlisle. 

Period,  1795.     Localities :  Perthshire  and  Cumberland. 

ROBIN  Old  was  just  starting  from  Dounc  with  a 
drove  of  cattle  for  England,  when  his  father's 
sister,  who  was  supposed  to  be  gifted  with  second 
sight,  drew  his  dirk  from  the  folds  of  his  plaid, 
and,  exclaiming  that  there  was  Saxon  blood  on  it, 
induced  him  to  entrust  the  weapon  to  Morrison, 
who  undertook  to  return  it  when  asked  for.  At 
Falkirk  the  Highlander  met  his  bosom  friend, 
Wakefield,  and  they  travelled  southwards  to- 
gether. Having  reached  Cumberland,  they  separ- 
ated to  hire  pasturage  for  their  beasts,  and  it 
happened  that  while  the  Englishman  bargained 
with  the  bailiff,  the  Highlander  came  to  terms 
with  the  squire,  and  they  thus  both  secured  the 
same  enclosure.  On  discovering  this,  Wakefield 

"5 


Il6     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

reproached  his  comrade  with  having  played  him 
false,  and,  angrily  refusing  his  offer  that  they 
should  share  the  field,  had  to  be  content  with  a 
barren  moor  belonging  to  the  landlord  of  the  ale- 
house, where  they  had  agreed  to  pass  the  night. 

The  squire  had  invited  Oig  to  sup  with  him, 
and  mentioned  having  passed  Morrison  a  few  miles 
off.  On  reaching  the  inn  the  Highlander  met 
with  a  cold  reception  from  the  assembled  com- 
pany, who  sided  with  Wakefield,  and  egged  him 
on  to  challenge  Oig  to  a  Cumberland  tussle.  But 
the  Highlander  would  have  shaken  hands,  and, 
refusing  to  fight  except  with  swords,  he  attempted 
to  leave  the  room.  Wakefield,  however,  opposed 
his  doing  so,  and  struck  him  senseless  to  the 
ground.  Frantic  with  rage  when  he  revived,  and 
prevented  by  the  hostess  from  attacking  his  com- 
rade, Oig  sullenly  went  out,  warning  him  to 
beware.  Striding  over  the  moonlit  moor  to  meet 
Morrison,  he  obtained  his  dirk  on  the  pretence 
that  he  had  enlisted,  and,  returning  to  the  ale- 
house, he  stabbed  Wakefield  through  the  heart. 

At  his  trial  the  judge  made  every  allowance  for 
the  provocation  Oig  had  received,  but  pointed  out 
to  the  jury  that,  as  he  went  to  recover  possession 
of  his  weapon,  there  was  ample  time  for  his  passion 
to  have  subsided,  and  for  him  to  have  reflected 
on  the  guilt  of  his  meditated  revenge.  He  was, 
accordingly,  convicted  of  murder,  and  having  been 
sentenced  to  be  hung,  he  met  his  fate  with  the 
observation,  '  I  give  a  life  for  the  life  I  took,  and 
what  can  I  do  more  ? ' 


THE  ANTIQUARY 

Principal  Characters 


His  daughter,  ISABELLA. 
HERMAN    DOUSTEKSWIVEL,   a 

charlatan  professor. 
MRS  MAILSETTER,  postmistress 

of  Fairport. 
REV.  DOCTOR  BLATTERGOWL, 

minister  of  Trotcosey. 
Miss  REBECCA  BLATTERGOWL, 

his  sister. 

Ei.si'KTii,  of  the  Craigburnfoot. 
SAUNDERS       MUCKLEBACKIT, 

her  son,  a  fisherman. 
THE  COUNTESS  OF  GLENALLAN. 
THE  EARL,  her  son. 
EVELI  NE  NEVILLE,  his  betrothed. 
BAILIE  LITTLEJOHN. 
MESSRS  GREENHORN  &  GRIND- 

ERSON,  Writers  to  the  Signet 


MR  WILLIAM    LOVELL,   after- 
wards LORD  GERALDIN. 
MRS  MACLEUCHAR, proprietress 

of  the  Qncensfcrry  diligence. 
MR   JONATHAN   OI.DBUCK,   of 

Monkbarns,  an  Antiquary. 
Miss  GRISELUA  OLUBUCK,  his 

sister. 
CAPTAIN  HECTOR  MAC!NTYRE, 

their  nephew. 
Miss  MARIA  MAC!NTYRE,  their 

niece. 

CAXON,  a  barber. 
His  daughter,  JENNY. 
LIEUTENANT     TAFFRIL,      her 

lover. 

EDIE  OCIIILTREE,  a  mendicant. 
SIR    ARTHUR    WARDOUR,    of 

Knockivinnock  Castle. 
His   son,  CAPTAIN  REGINALD 

WARDOUR. 

Servants,  neighbours,  fishermen,  funeral  procession,  foresters, 
bowl-players,  constables,  bailiff's,  etc. 

Period,  1795-     Locality:  Fifeshire. 

MR  OLDBUCK,  having  made  acquaintance  with 
Lovell  as  they  travelled  together  from  Edin- 
burgh tu  Fairport,  invited  him  to  Munkbarns, 
and  finding  him  an  intelligent  listener  to  his 
antiquarian  talk,  introduced  him  to  Sir  Arthur 
and  to  Miss  Isabella,  with  whom  he  had  fallen 
in  love  in  Yorkshire.  On  their  way  home  from 

117 


Il8  A   KEY    TO   THE   WAVERLEY   NOVLLb 

meeting  him  at  dinner,  the  baronet  and  his 
daughter  were  overtaken  by  the  tide,  and  Lovell, 
with  Ochiltree's  help,  rescued  them  from  a  ledge 
of  rock.  Passing  the  night  in  a  haunted  room 
at  Monkbarns,  he  dreamt  that  he  saw  an  old 
burgomaster  emerge  from  the  tapestry,  and  point 
to  a  motto  in  a  book  meaning  that  'skill  wins 
favour.'  When  he  called,  however,  the  next  day 
at  the  castle,  Miss  Wardour  declined  his  ad- 
dresses, and  he  learnt  from  Mr  Oldbuck  that  her 
father  was  being  swindled  by  Dousterswivel.  A 
letter  he  received  caused  him  to  seclude  himself 
in  his  lodgings  for  a  fortnight,  when  he  accepted 
an  invitation  from  Sir  Arthur  to  a  picnic  at  St 
Ruth's  Priory,  where  he  was  called  upon  to  read 
a  legend  transcribed  by  his  lady-love,  and  chal- 
lenged by  Maclntyre  for  passing  under  an  assumed 
name. 

Having  wounded  the  captain,  he  was  carried  off 
by  the  mendicant  to  a  gallery  in  the  ruins  until  he 
could  take  refuge  on  board  Lieutenant  Taffril's 
brig ;  and  from  their  hiding-place  they  witnessed 
an  interview  between  the  baronet  and  the  pro- 
fessor, during  which  the  latter  pretended  to  un- 
earth a  ram's  horn  filled  with  coins.  Believing 
that  more  treasure  was  concealed  in  the  ruins, 
Sir  Arthur,  who  had  already  borrowed  largely 
from  his  friend,  came  tu  ask  for  another  hundred 
pounds,  which  Dousterswivel  demanded  for  con- 
tinuing the  search ;  but  the  antiquary  insisted 
that  they  should  hire  diggers  and  proceed  at  once 
to  the  spot,  where  they  were  joined  by  Ochiltree, 
and  in  an  old  grave  found  a  chest  containing 


THE   ANTIQUARY  119 

several  ingots  of  silver,  which  had  been  secretly 
placed  there  by  Lovell's  direction.  The  same 
night,  as  the  professor,  accompanied  by  the  men- 
dicant, was  digging  in  the  hope  of  finding  another 
chest,  he  received  a  violent  blow  from  a  dark 
figure,  and  fell  insensible  into  the  hole. 

On  recovering,  he  was  startled  by  witnessing  the 
funeral  service  of  the  Countess  of  Glenallan  in  the 
transept  by  torchlight,  and  was  assisted  to  the 
forester's  lodge  vowing  vengeance  for  the  trick 
that  had  been  played  him.  Shortly  afterwards 
Mucklebackit's  son  Steenie  reached  the  fisher- 
man's cottage,  followed  by  Ochiltree,  and  pro- 
duced the  professor's  pocket-book  from  his  pouch. 
The  next  morning  old  Elspeth  sent  the  beggar 
to  tell  the  Earl  of  Glenallan  she  must  see  him 
instantly,  and,  while  he  was  settling  a  dispute 
among  the  village  bowl-players  on  his  return,  the 
news  arrived  that  Steenie  was  drowned,  and  he 
was  arrested  on  a  charge  of  robbing  and  assault- 
ing Dousterswivel. 

As  Hector  was  accompanying  his  uncle  to  the 
lad's  funeral,  he  was  thrown  down  by  a  seal,  and 
to  escape  his  raillery  returned  home.  Mr  Old- 
buck,  however,  proceeded,  and  won  the  respect  of 
all  the  mourners  by  heading  the  procession  to  the 
grave.  The  same  afternoon  the  earl  had  an  inter- 
view \\  ith  Elspeth,  and  learnt  from  her  that,  having 
married  Eveline  against  his  mother's  wish,  he  had 
been  falsely  told  by  her  that  she  was  his  sister, 
which  had  caused  the  poor  girl  to  throw  herself 
from  a  cliff,  and  had  for  twenty  years  overwhelmed 
him  with  grief  and  horror.  The  old  woman  also 


I2O    A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

led  htm  to  hope  that  his  infant  son  was  still 
living.  Meeting  the  antiquary,  he  opened  his 
heart  to  him,  notwithstanding  he  had  been  a 
rival  for  Eveline's  hand,  and  at  once  received 
the  promise  of  his  help  in  clearing  up  the 
mystery. 

Meanwhile  Sir  Arthur  was  on  the  point  of  leav- 
ing Knockwinnock  Castle  in  possession  of  his 
creditors,  when  Ochiltree,  who  had  been  bailed 
by  Mr  Oldbuck,  brought  a  letter  from  his  son 
Reginald  enclosing  funds  and  a  bill  of  suspension. 
The  same  night  old  Caxon  having  mistaken  a 
bonfire  of  the  professor's  laboratory  for  a  beacon- 
signal  that  the  French  were  coming,  the  yeomanry 
and  volunteers  were  called  out,  and  a  Major 
Neville  arrived  to  take  command  of  them.  The 
magistrates  received  him,  and  to  their  surprise 
recognised  their  late  visitor  Lovell,  who  had  dis- 
appeared after  his  duel  with  Maclntyre.  The 
antiquary  took  an  opportunity  of  questioning  him 
privately,  and,  satisfied  as  to  his  identity,  presented 
him  to  the  Earl  of  Glenallan  as  his  son  and  heir. 
Miss  Wardour  made  no  objection  to  become  Lady 
Geraldin,  the  old  mendicant  passed  most  of  his 
time  with  the  barber,  whose  daughter  was  married 
to  the  lieutenant,  and  Mr  Oldbuck  was  ahvays  a 
welcome  visitor  both  at  Knockwinnock  and  Glen- 
allan House. 


T  RONAN'S   WELL 


Principal  Characters 


MEG  "Dons,  hostess  of  the  Clcikum 
Inn. 

VALENTINE  BUI.MER,  after- 
wards EARL  OF  ETHRINGTON. 

FRANCIS  TYRREL,  his  half- 
brother. 

MASTER  BINDI.OOSE,  sheriff's 
clerk  and  banker. 

MR  JOHN  MOWBRAY  of  Shaw's 
Castle,  laird  of  St  Konaii's. 

His  sister,  CLARA. 

HANNAH  IRWIN,  their  cousin. 

NELLY  TROTTER,  a  fish-woman. 

LADY  PENELOPE  PENKEATHER. 

MRS  MARGARET  BLOWER,  a 
widow. 

Miss  MARIA  DIGUES. 

SIR  BINGO  LINKS,  an  English 
baronet. 


Miss     RACHEL     BONNYRIUG, 
afterwards  LADY  BINKS. 

DR      CjUACKLEUEN, 

MR  PHILIP  WIN- 
TERBLOSSOM, 

MR  S  A  U  N  D  E  R  S 
MEIKI  EHAM, 

CAPTAIN  HECTOR 
MACTURK, 

REV.  SIMON  CHAT- 
TER LY, 

M  R         MlC  II  A  E  L 

MEREDITH, 
MR       BEREGRINE       SCROGIE 

TOUCHWOOD. 
REV.  JOSIAH  CARGII.L,  minister 

of  St  Konati  s. 

CA  PTAI  N  J  EK  vi.  ,///<•  carts  friend. 
SOLMES,  'the  carCs  valet. 


TU'LMKk  and  Tyrrcl  had  been  Mrs  Dud's  guests  as 
students  from  Edinburgh,  and  she  gladly  welcomed 
Francis  when  he  arrived,  some  years  afterwards,  to 
stay  at  the  inn  again,  that  he  might  fish  and  sketch 
in  the  neighbourhood.  A  mineral  spring  had,  in 
the  meantime,  been  discovered  at  St  Ronan's,  and 
he  was  invited  by  the  fashionable  visitors  to  dine 


122     A  KEY  TO  THE  WAVERLEY  NOVELS 

with  them  at  the  Fox  Hotel,  where  he  quarrelled 
with  Sir  Bingo,  and,  on  his  way  back  to  the 
Cleikum,  met  Clara  Mowbray,  to  whom  he  had 
been  secretly  engaged  during  his  former  visit,  but 
was  prevented  from  marrying  her  by  the  treachery 
of  Bulmer,  who  had  now  succeeded  to  the  earldom, 
and  was  expected  at  the  Spa.  Tyrrel  having  been 
waited  upon  by  Captain  MacTurk,  accepted  a 
challenge  from  the  baronet,  but  failed  to  keep  his 
appointment,  and  was  posted  as  an  adventurer  by 
the  committee  of  management.  He  also  disap- 
peared from  the  inn,  which  led  hfs  hostess  to 
consult  Mr  Bindloose,  under  the  belief  that  he 
had  been  murdered.  Their  conference  was  inter- 
rupted by  Mr  Touchwood,  who  came  to  change  a 
bill,  and  talked  of  having  been  abroad  for  many 
years.  He  also  evinced  great  interest  in  the  affairs 
of  the  Mowbray  family,  and  having  taken  up  his 
quarters  at  the  Cleikum,  made  friends  with  Mr 
Cargill,  who  had  been  disappointed  in  love,  and 
startled  him  with  a  rumour  that  Clara  was  about 
to  be  married. 

Soon  after  the  earl's  arrival  it  was  reported  that 
he  had  been  shot  in  the  arm  by  a  foot-pad  ;  and, 
while  his  wound  was  healing,  he  spent  his  time  in 
gambling  with  the  young  laird  of  St  Ronan's,  who 
had  borrowed  his  sister's  money  for  the  purpose  of 
retrieving  his  luck.  Having  allowed  him  to  win  a 
considerable  sum,  his  lordship  made  proposals  ior 
Clara's  hand,  explaining  that  his  grand-uncle  had 
disinherited  his  only  son,  and  devised  his  estate  to 
him,  on  condition  that  he  chose  as  a  wife  a  lady  of 
the  name  of  Mowbray.  In  a  letter  to  his  friend 


ST  RONAN'S  WELL  123 

Jckyl,  the  carl  confessed  that  he  had  been  winged 
in  a  duel  with  Tyrrel,  whom  he  met  on  his  way 
to  fight  Sir  Bingo,  and  that  he  had  wounded  his 
brother.  A  few  days  afterwards  the  company  at 
the  Well  assembled  at  Shaw's  Castle  to  take  part 
in  a  dramatic  entertainment,  and  Mr  Touchwood 
persuaded  Mr  Cargill  to  accompany  him  as  one 
of  the  guests.  While  they  were  walking  in  the 
grounds  the  minister  took  an  opportunity  to 
remind  Clara  of  a  secret  in  his  keeping,  which 
made  it  impossible  for  her  to  marry.  He  also 
encountered  the  earl,  and,  believing  him  to  be 
Bulmer,  attempted  to  warn  him. 

The  next  morning,  as  Mowbray  was  endeavour- 
ing to  induce  Clara  to  consent  to  the  match,  he 
received  an  anonymous  communication  that  the 
earl  was  an  impostor ;  and,  in  an  interview  with 
him,  she  rejected  his  suit  with  loathing  and  scorn. 
His  lordship  then  wrote  to  Jekyl,  telling  him  the 
circumstances  under  which,  when  he  was  only 
sixteen,  he  had  arranged  with  Mr  Cargill  for  a 
secret  marriage  between  her  and  Tyrrel ;  but, 
learning  subsequently  the  contents  of  his  uncle's 
will,  had  incurred  their  life-long  hatred  by  per- 
sonating his  brother  at  the  ceremony.  Tyrrel,  who 
after  the  duel  had  retired  to  an  adjacent  village  to 
be  cured  of  his  wound,  reappeared  just  in  time  to 
rescue  Mr  Touchwood  from  drowning;  and,  at  an 
interview  with  Jekyl,  who  undertook  to  clear  his 
character,  offered  to  forego  his  claim  to  the  earldom, 
of  which  he  had  proofs,  if  his  brother  would  refrain 
from  molesting  Clara  any  further.  This  proposal 
the  earl  sneered  at,  and,  as  he  was  forming  fresh 


124  A   KEY   TO   THE   WAVEKLEY   NOVELS 

schemes  for  attaining  his  end,  he  discovered  that 
Hannah  Irwin,  who  had  been  Clara's  companion, 
was  dying  at  St  Ronan's,  and  anxious  to  confess 
her  share  in  the  secret  marriage.  Solmes  was 
instructed  to  carry  her  off,  while  his  master  got 
the  brother  into  his  power  by  ruining  him  at  play, 
and  then  promised  to  cancel  the  debt  if  Clara 
consented  to  acknowledge  him  as  her  husband 
within  four-and-twenty  hours. 

Mowbray  believed  he  had  prevailed  with  his 
sister,  when  Mr  Touchwood  unexpectedly  arrived, 
and  announced  himself  as  Scrogie,  the  disinherited 
son,  who  by  bribing  Solmes,  and  in  other  ways, 
had  learnt  everyone's  secrets,  and  was  ready  with 
his  fortune  to  arrange  all  their  difficulties.  But  he 
was  too  late.  Clara  had  escaped  from  her  room 
during  the  night,  and,  after  appearing  at  the  manse 
to  forgive  her  cousin,  who  had  been  confided  to 
Mr  Cargill's  care,  had  made  her  way  to  the  Cleikum, 
where,  in  a  seeming  trance,  she  had  a  final  inter- 
view with  Tyrrel,  and  died  soon  afterwards  from 
congestion  of  the  brain.  Mowbray,  meanwhile,  in 
his  search  for  her,  encountered  the  earl  and  his 
companions  engaged  in  a  shooting  match,  and 
killed  him  in  a  duel  arranged  on  the  spot  by 
Captain  MacTurk,  with  whom  he  fled  to  the  Con- 
tinent to  escape  imprisonment.  Mr  Touchwood 
had  consequently  to  seek  some  other  outlet  for  his 
wealth,  and  the  Etherington  estates  were  never 
claimed  by  the  rightful  heir,  who  determined  to 
pass  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  a  Moravian 
mission. 


INDEX  OF  THE 
PRINCIPAL    CHARACTERS 


A  BENEDICTINE  ABBESS,  5 

Advocate,  The  King's,  .  90 

Agatha  (a  servant),  .  .  i 

Agelastes,  Michael,  .  .  i 

Alasco,  Doctor,         .  .  43 

Albany,  Duke  of,      .  .  22 

Aldrovand,  Father,  .  .  5 

Alexius  Comnenus,   .  .  i 

Alice  Ben  Lean,        .  .  94 

Alice  Bridgenorth,    .  .  62 

Alice  Lee,         ...  58 

Alice,  of  Ravenswood,  .  71 

Altramont,  Frederick,  .  75 

Ambrose,  Father,      .  .  39 

Amelot  (a  page),       .  .  5 

Amy  Robsart,  ...  43 

Anderson  (a  servant),  .  54 

Anjou,  Margaret  of,  .  31 

Anna,  Princess,         .  .  i 

Annaple,  Dame,       .  .  82 

Anne  of  Geierstein,  .  .  31 

Annot  Lylc,      ...  54 

Anselm,  Prior,           .  ,  22 

Antioch,  Bohemond  of,  .  i 

Antonio  (a  guide),     .  .  31 

Apparition  of  a  Woman,  .  113 

Archer,  Lieutenant,  .  105 


Archibald,  Mr,  .  .  90 
Argyle,  Duke  of,  .  .90 
Argyle,  Marquis  of,  .  .  54 
Armstrong,  Grace,  .  .  82 
Armstrong,  John,  .  .  48 
Arthuret,  The  Sisters,  .  98 
Ashton,  Henry,  .  .  71 
Ashton,  Lady,  .  .  .71 
Ashton,  Lucy,  .  .  71 
Ashton,  Sholto  Douglas  .  71 
Ashton,  Sir  William,  .  71 
Astarte  (an  attendant),  .  i 
Athelstane  (a  Saxon),  .  14 
Augusta  of  Berkely,  Lady.  18 
Austria,  Leopold,  Arch- 
duke of,  ...  9 
Auxerre,  Bishop  of,  .  .  27 
Avenel,  Julian,  .  .  35 
Avenel,  Mary,  35 
Avenel,  White  Lady  of,  .  35 
Avenel,  Widow  Alice,  .  35 
Aymer,  Prior  of,  .  .  12 


BAT.DKRSTON,  Caleb,  .  71 
Baldcrston,  Mysie,  .  .  71 
Baldringham,  Lady  of  .  5 


125 


126 


INDEX 


Baldwin,  Archbishop,  .  5 
Baldwin,  Count,  .  .  i 
Balfour  of  Burley,  John,  .  67 
Balmawhapple,  Mr  Fal- 
coner of,  .  <)4 
Barak  El  Hadji,  .  .  109 
Bcarscliff,  Deacon,  .  .  103 
Beaujeau,  Princess  of 

France,          ...  27 

Beaujcu  (a  tavern-keeper),  50 

Beaumanoir,  Lucas  de,     .  14 

Beg,  Callum  (a  page),        .  94 

Bellenden,  Edith,     .         .  67 
Bellendcn,  Lady  Margaret 

of,         .          .          .         .  67 

Bellenden,  Major,     .          .  (>- 

Belue,  Cardinal  John  of,   .  27 

Benjic  (a  village  lad),        .  9S 

Ben  Lean,  Alice,      .         .  94 

Ben  Lean,  Donald,  .         .  94 

Berengaria,  Queen,  .         .  9 

Bcrenger,  Eveline,    .         .  5 

Berenger,  Sir  Raymond  de.  5 

Berkely,  Lady  Augusta  of,  1 6 

Bertha  (a  servant),    .          .  i 

Bertram  (a  minstrel),         .  18 

Bertram,  Augustine,          .  18 

Bertram,  Harry,        .          .  105 
Bertram,  Lucy,          .          .103 

Bertram,  Miss  Margaret.  .  103 

Bertram,  Mr  Godfrey,       .  103 

Berwine  (a  servant),           .  5 

Bevis  (a  wolf  dog),  .         .  58 

Bickerton,  Mrs,         .          .  90 

Bide-the-Bent,  Rev.  Mr,  .  71 

Biederman,  Arnold,            .  31 

Biederman,  Ernest,   .          .  31 

Biederman,  Rudiger,          .  31 

Biederman,  Sigismund,     .  31 

Bindloose,  Master,    .          .  121 
Binks,  Lady,    .          .          .121 

Binks,  Sir  Bingo,      .          .  121 
Birrenswork,    Mr    I  ferries 

of,         ....  98 

Blandeville,  Lady  Emily,  .  94 

Blattergowl,Miss  Rebecca,  1 17 

Blattergowl,  Rev.  Doctor,  117 

Blekcnsop,  Lady,     .          .  71 

Bletson,  Joshua,        .          ,  58 

Blok,  Nikkei,  ...  27 


PAGE 

Blondel  (a  minstrel),  .  9 

I  Hood,  Colonel,  .  .  62 

Blower,  Mrs  Margaret,  .  121 

Bohemond,  of  Antioch,  .  i 

Bois  Gilbert,  Sir  Brian  de,  14 

Bolton,  Captain  Stawarth,  315 

Boniface,  Lord  Abbot,  .  35 

Bonnyrigg,  Miss  Rachel,  .  121 

Bonsteteen,  Nicholas,  .  31 

P.onlhron,  Anthony,  .  22 

Hothwell,  Lady,  .  .  So 

Bothwell,  Sergeant, .  .  67 

Bouillon,  Godfrey  dc.  .  i 
Bourbon,  Louis,  Bishop  of 

Liege,  .  .  .  .27 

Bracy,  Maurice  de,  .  .  14 
Bradwardine,  Cosmo 

Comyne,  ...  94 

Bradwardine,  Rose, .  .  94 

Brenda  Troil,  ...  75 
Brengwan  (wife  of  Gwen- 

wyn),  ....  5 
Brenhilda,  Countess  of 

Paris,  ....  I 

Brcnnius,  Nicephoms,  .  i 

Bridgenorth,  Alice,  .  .  62 

Bridgenorth,  Major,  .  62 

Brittson,  Sergeant,  .  .  35 

Brown  (a  smuggler),  .  103 

Brown,  Vanbeest,  .  .  103 
Browne,  General,  .  .113 
Buckingham,  Stephen, 

Duke  of,  .  .  .  50 
Buckingham,  Villiers, 

Duke  of.  .  .  .  62 

Bucklaw,  Laird  of.  .  .  71 

Bulmer,  Valentine,  .  .  121 

Bunce,  John,  ...  75 

Buonaventure,  Father,  .  98 
Burgundy,  Duke  Charles 

of,  ...  27,  31 

Burleigh,  Lord,  .  .  43 

Butler,  Reuben,  .  .  90 


('ADWAT.I.ON  (a  bard),       .  5 
Calista     of    Mountfaucon, 

Lady,   .          .          .    '     .  5 

Callum  Beg  (a  page),         .  94 

Cameron,  Allan  Break,     .  107 


INDEX 


127 


PAGE 

Campbell,  General,  .  .  98 

Campbell,  Ilamish,  .  .  86 
Campbell,  Helen  Mac- 

Gregor,  .  .  .86 

Campbell,  Robert,  .  .  86 
Campbell,  Rob  Roy  M:u> 

Grcgor,  ...  86 

Campbell,  Sir  Duncan,  .  54 

Campo  Risso,  Count,  .  31 

Cargill,  Rev.  Josiah,  .  121 
Caroline,  (")uccn  of  George 

II 90 

Castor,  Stephanos,  .  .  i 

Catharine  of  Perth,  .  .  22 

Catherine  Scyton,  .  .  39 

Cathlecn  (a  servant),  ,  <).\ 

Caxon  (a  barber),  .  .  117 

Caxon, Jenny,  .  .  117 

Ccclric,  the  Saxon,  .  .  14 
Charles  II.,  .  .  58,  62 

Charles,  Prince  of  Wales,  50 
Charles  the  Bold,  of  liur- 

gundy,  .  .  .  27,31 

Charles  Edward,  the 

Young  Pretender,  94,  98 
Charteris,  Sir  Patrick,  .  22 
Chattanach,  MacGillic,  .  22 
Chatterly,  Rev.  Simon,  .  121 
Chaffinch,  Mistress,  .  .  62 
Chiffinch,  William,  .  .  62 
Christian,  Edward,  .  ,  62 
Christie,  Dame  Nelly,  .  50 
Christie,  John,  .  .  50 
Christie  of  the  Clinthill,  .  35 
Clara  Movvbray,  .  .  121 
Claverhouse,  Colonel  Gra- 
ham of.  ...  67 
Clement,  Father,  .  .  22 
Cleveland,  Clement,  .  75 
Colepepper,  Captain,  .  50 
Colin,  Captain  Green,  .  107 
Comnenus,  Alexius, .  .  i 
Conachar  (an  apprentice),  22 
Conrade  of  Montserrat, 

Marquis,  ...  9 

Crackenthorp,  Father,  .  98 

Craigdallie,  I'ailie,  .  .  22 

Craigenfelt,  Captain,  .  71 

Crawford,  Lindsay,  Earl  of,  22 

Crawford,  Lord,  .  .  27 


PACE 
Crevccoeur,  Count  Philip,         27 


Crevecoeur,  Countess, 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  .  . 
Crosbic,  Mr  William,  . 
Croye,  Isabella,  Countess 
of,  .... 
Cruickshanks,  Ebcmver.  . 


DAIN,  Oliver  le,        .         . 

Dalgarno,  Lady,        .          . 

1  >algarno,  Lord,        . 

Dalgetty,  Sir  Dugald,         . 

Dalxell,  General,       .          . 

Damiotti,  Uaptista,   .          . 

Dannischemcnd  (a  sor- 
cerer), 

Dannischemcnd,  ller- 
mione,  .  .  . 

Deans,  David,  ... 

Deans,  Effie,    ... 

Deans,  Jeanie, .         . 

Debbitch,  Deborah, 

Dennison,  Jenny,       .          . 

Derby,  Charlotte,  Coun- 
tess of,  ... 

Derby,  Earl  of,          .          . 

Desborough,  Colonel,        . 

Dhu,  Evan,       ... 

Diana  Vernon,  .          , 

Dick,  The  Devil's,   .         . 

Dickie  Sludge,          .         . 

Dickson,  Charles.      .          . 

Dickson,  Tom,  of  lla/le- 
wood,  .  .  .  . 

Digges,  Miss  Maria.  . 

Dinmont,  Dandle,     . 

Diogenes  (a  negro),  . 

Doboobie,  Doctor,    . 

Dods,  Meg, 

Donnershugel,  Rudolph  of, 

Donocha  Dhu, 

Douban  (a  slave-), 

Dougal  (a  turnkey),  . 

Douglas,  Archibald,  Earl 
of, 

Douglas,  George, 

Douglas,  Lady, 

Douglas,  Sir  James, . 

Douglas,  Sir  William. 


27 
58 

98 

27 
94 


27 
5rJ 
5° 
54 
67 
So 

y 

31 
90 
90 

9° 

62 

67 

62 
62 

54 
86 

22 

43 
1 8 

1 8 

121 
I 

43 

121 

31 

90 

I 

86 


3r> 
30 
1 8 

39 


128 


INDEX 


Dousterswivel,  Herman, 
Dronsdaughter,  Tronda, 
Dryfesdale  (a  steward), 
Dumbiedykes,  Laird  of, 
Dundee,  Viscount  of, 
Dunois,  Count  de,     . 
Durward  Quentin,   . 
Dutton,  Mrs,    . 
Dwining,  Henbane, 


EARNSCT.IFF,  Patrick, 

Eberson,  Carl, 

Edith  Bellcnden, 

Eflie  Deans,     .          , 

Einion,  Father, 

El  Hadji,  Barak,       . 

Elizabeth,  Queen, 

Elliot,  Annot,  . 

Elliot,  Dame,  . 

Elliot,  Hobbie, 

Elliot,  Jean, 

Elliot,  Lilias,  . 

Elshie,  The  Dwarf,  . 

Elspeth,  Widow, 

Elspeth,  of  Craigburn- 
foot,  . 

Engaddi,  Theodoric  of, 

Erickson,  Sweyne,    . 

Ermingarde,Lady  of  Bald- 
ringham, 

Errol,  Earl  of,  . 

Etherington,  Earl  of, 

Eustace,  Father, 

Evandale,  Lord, 

Eveline  Berenger, 

Eveline  Neville, 

Everard,  Colonel  Murk- 
ham,  .  .  .  . 

Eviot  (a  pnge), 

Ewart,  Nanty, 


FAGGOT,  Nicholas,  . 
Fairbrother,  Mr, 
Fairford,  Alan, 
Fairford,  Mr  Saunders, 
Fair  Maid  of  Perth,  . 
Fairservice,  Andrew, 
Falconer,  Major, 


PAGE 

PAGE 

117 

Falconer,   Mr,   of  Balma- 

75 

whapple, 

94 

39 

Fea,  Euphane, 

75 

90 

Fenella  (a  dwarf),     . 

62 

67 

Flammock,  Rose, 

5 

27 

Flammock,  William, 

5 

27 

Fleecebumpkin,  John, 

"5 

90 

Fleming,  Lady, 

39 

22 

Fleming,  Sir  Malcolm, 

iS 

Flibbertigibbet, 

43 

Flora  Maclvor, 

94 

S2 

Forester,  Lady  Jemima,    . 

80 

27 

Forester,  Sir  Philip, 

80 

6? 

Foster  (a  champion), 

48 

9° 

Foster,  Anthony, 

43 

5 

Foster,  Janet,  . 

43 

109 

Foxley,  Squire, 

98 

43 

France,  Louis  XI.  of, 

27 

82 

France,    Philip    Augustus 

82 

of,     .     .     :     . 

9 

82 

Francis,  Father, 

22 

82 

Front  de  Bceuff,  Reginald, 

14 

82 

82 

35 

GABRIEL  TOD, 

103 

Galbraith,  Major,     . 

86 

117 

Ganlesse,  Richard,   . 

62 

9 

Gardiner,  Colonel,    . 

94 

75 

Geddes,  Joshua, 

98 

Geddes,  Rachel, 

98 

5 

Geierstein,  Anne  of, 

3i 

22 

Geierstein,    Count   Albert 

121 

of,         .... 

3i 

35 

Gellatley,  David, 

94 

67 

Gellatley,  Janet, 

94 

5 

Genvil,  Ralph, 

5 

117 

Geraldin,  Lord, 

117 

Gernington,  Lady,    . 

7i 

58   '   Gertrude  Pavilion,    . 

27 

22      Gieslaer,  Peterkin,    . 

27 

98    .   (iilfillan,  Mr,    . 

94 

Gillian,  Dame, 

5 

Gillian,  Raoul, 

5 

98 

Gilsland,    Sir  Thomas  de 

90 

Vaux  of,        . 

9 

98 

Glasgow,  Bishop  of, 

1  8 

98 

Glass,  Mrs, 

90 

22 

Glenallan,  Countess  of, 

117 

86 

Glenallan,  Earl  of,    . 

117 

So      Glendinning,  Edward, 

35 

INDEX 


129 


PAGE 

Glendinning,  Halbert,  .  35 

Glendinning,  Lady,  .  .  39 

Glendinning,  Sir  Halbert,  39 
Glendinning,  Widow  El- 

speth 35 

Glenvarlock,  Lord,  .  .  50 

Glorieux,  Le  (a  jester),  .  27 

Glossin,  Gilbert,  .  .  103 

Gloucester,  Earl  of, .  .  5 

Gosling,  Giles,  .  .  43 

Gourlay,  Ailsie,  .  .  71 
Gow,  Henry,  .  .  .22 

Grace  Armstrong,  .  .  82 

Grceme,  Magdalen,  .  .  39 

Grreme,  Roland,  .  .  39 
Graeme,  Willie,  of  West- 

burnflat,  ...  82 
Graham,  Colonel,  of 

Claverhouse,  .  .  67 

Graham,  Cornet,  .  .  67 

Grantmesnel,  Hugh  de,  .  14 

Gray,  Gideon,  .  .  .  109 

Gray,  Jean,  .  .  .  109 

Gray,  Menie,  .  .  .  109 
Greenhorn  &  Grinderson, 

Messrs,  .  .  117 

Greenleaf,  Gilbert,  .  .  18 

Guarine,  Philip,  .  .  5 

Guenevra  (a  dwarf),  .  9 

Gurth  (a  swineherd),  .  14 

Guydill  (a  butler),  .  .  67 
Gwenwyn,  Prince  of 

Powysland,  ...  5 


HAGENBACH,    Count 

Archibald  von,       .  .  31 

Hakim,  El,       .         .  .  9 

Ilalcro,  Claud,           .  .  75 

Hall,  Sir  Christopher,  .  54 

Ilalliday,  Tarn,          .  .  6? 

Hameline,  Lady,      .  .  27 

Hamilton,  Lady  Emily,  .  67 

Harbothel,  Fabian,  .  .  18 

Happer  (a  miller),     .  .  35 

Happer,  Mysie,          .  .  35 

I larpax  (a  centurion),  ,  i 

Harrison,  General,    .  .  5^ 

Hartley,  Adam,        .  .  109 

Ilatteraick,  Dirk,     .  .  103 


Hautville,  Lady  Margaret 
de 

Hayraddin  Mangrabin,     . 

Hayston,  Frank, 

Hazlewood,  Charles, 

Headrigg,  Cuddie,    . 

Headrigg,  Mausc,     . 

Helen  MacGregor  Camp- 
bell, .... 

Henderson,  Rev.  Elias,    . 

Henry  II., 

Henshaw,  Kit,          .         . 

Hercward  (a  Saxon),         , 

Heriot,  George, 

Hermione  Dannischemend, 

Hermione,  Lady, 

IlerricS;  Mr,  of  Birrens- 
work,  .... 

Heskett,  Dame, 

Heskett,  Ralph, 

Higg  (a  peasant), 

Hildebrod  (a  bailiff), 

Hillary,  Tom,  . 

Hobbler,  Doctor, 

Hodges,  John, . 

Holdenough,  Rev.  Nehe- 
miah,  .... 

Holiday,  Master  Erasmus, 

Houston,  Humphrey,     . 

Hudson,  Sir  Geoffrey, 

Ilundwolf  (a  steward), 

Hunsdon,  Lord, 

Iluntinglen,  Lord,    . 

Hyder  Ali, 


II.DERIM  SHEERKOHF, 

Ildcrton,  Lucy, 
Inglewood,  Squire,  . 
Ireby,  Mr, 

Irene,  The  Empress, 
Irwin,  Hannah, 
Isaac  of  York, . 
Isabel  Vere, 
Isabella  Wardour,     . 
Ivanhoe,  Wilfrid  of,  . 


TACQUEI.INE  (a  servant), 
James  I., 


86 

"5 

i 

121 

14 

82 

II? 

14 


130 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Janet  of  Tomahourich,  .  115 

Jarvie,  Bailie  Nicol,  .  .  86 

Jekyl,  Captain,  .  .  121 

Jerningham  (a  secretary),  .  62 

Jerome,  Abbot,  .  .  18 

Joan,  Princess  of  France,  .  27 

Jobson,  Joseph,  .  .  86 
John,  Prince,  brother  of 

Richard  I.,  .  .  .  14 
John,  Prince,  son  of 

Henry  II.,  ...  5 

Joliffe,  Jocelin,  .  .  58 

Jorworth  ap  Jevan,  .  .  5 

Jourvaulx,  Abbot  of,  .  14 

Julia  Mannering,  .  .  103 


KENNEDY,  Frank,   .         .  103 
Kenneth,      Sir,      of     the 

Couchant  Leopard,        .  9 

Kerneguy,  Louis,      .          .  58 

Keltledrurnle,  Gabriel,      .  67 

Knock,  Duncan,       .         .  90 


LACY,  Damian,        .         .  5 

Lacy,  Ranald,  ...  5 

Lacy,  Sir  Hugo  de, .  .  5 

Lambourne,  Michael,  .  43 

Langley,  Sir  Frederick,  .  82 

Latimer,  Darsie,  .  .  98 

Lauderdale,  Duke  of,  .  67 
Lawford,  Mr,  .  .  .109 

Lee,  Albert,  ...  58 
Lee,  Alice,  .  .  -58 

Lee,  Sir  Henry,  .  .  58 

Leicester  Dudley,  Earl  of,  43 
Leopold,  Archduke  of 

Austria,  ...  9 

Lesley,  Ludovic,  le  Balafre,  27 
Liege,  Louis  Bourbon, 

Bishop  of,  .  .  .  27 

Lilias  Redgauntlet,  .  .  98 

Lindesay,  Lord,  .  .  39 

Linklater,  Lawrence,  .  50 

Littlejohn,  Bnilie,  .  117 

Lochleven,  Lady  of,  .  39 

Locksley  (an  outlaw),  .  14 

Louis  XI.  of  France,  .  27 

Louise  (a  minstrel),  .  .  22 


Lovell,  Mr  William, 
Lowestofie,  Reginald, 
Lucy  Ashton,  . 
Lunden,  Sir  Louis,  . 
Lyle,  Annot,    . 
Lysimachus  (a  designer),  . 


PAGE 

117 

50 

71 

22 

54 


MACALPINE,  Jean,  .  ,  86 

MacAulay,  Allan  .  .  54 

MacAulay,  Angus,  .  .  54 

MacBriar  (a  preacher),  .  67 
MacCallum  More,  Duke 

of  Argyle,  .  .  .  90 
MacCallum  More,  Marquis 

of  Argyle,  ...  54 

MacCandlish,  Mrs,  .  .  103 

MacClure,  Bessie,  .  .  67 

MacCombich,  Evan  Dhu, .  94 

MacCombich,  Robin  Oig.  115 

MacEagh,  Kenneth,  .  54 

MacEagh,  Ranald,  .  .  54 

MacFittoch,  Mr,  .  .  109 

MacGuffog  (a  constable),  .  103 

Maclan,  Eachin,  .  .  22 

Macllduy  (a  chieftain),  .  54 

Maclntyre,  Captain  Hector,  117 

Maclntyre,  Miss  Maria,  .  117 
Maclvor,  Fergus,  Vich 

Ian  Vohr,  ...  94 

Maclvor,  Flora,  .  .  94 

MacLeuchar,  Mrs,  .  .  117 

MacMorlan,  Mr  and  Mrs,  103 

MacStuart  (a  trooper),  .  86 

MacTurk,  Captain  Hector,  121 
MacYittic  and  MacFin, 

Messrs,  ...  86 

MacWhccble,  Bailie,  .  94 

Madge  Wildfire,  .  .  90 

Mahony,  Dugald,  .  .  94 

Mailsetter,  Mrs,  .  .  117 

Malagrowther,  Sir  Mungo,  50 

Malvoisin,  Conrade  de,  .  14 

Malvoisin,  Richard  de,  .  14 

Malvoisin,  Sir  Philip  de,  .  14 

Mangrabin,  Ilayraddin,  .  27 

Mannering,  Colonel  Guy,  .  103 
Mannering,  Julia,  .  -103 
Mannering,  Mrs,  .  .103 

Mansell,  Lady.  .  .  50 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Marabout  (a  fanatic),         .  9 

March,  Earl  of,         .          .  22 

Marck,  William  dc  la,        .  27 

Marcschal,  Ralph,    .         .  82 

Margaret  of  Anjou,  .         .  31 

Margaret  Ramsay,    .          .  50 

Martha  (a  servant),  .          .  86 

Martha  Trapbois,     .          .  5° 

Marthon  (a  gipsy  woman),  27 
Mary  Avenel,  .         .         -35 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,       .  39 

Mattie  (a  servant).    .         .  ^6 

Mauley,  Sir  Edward,         .  82 

Maulstatute,  Master,         .  62 

Maxwell  (an  usher), .         .  50 

Maxwell,  Mr  Peter,  .          .  98 

Mayflower,  Phujbe,  .          .  58 
Meg  Dods,        .          .          .121 

Meg  Mcrrilies, .         .          .  103 

Meg  Murdockson,     .          .  90 

Meikleham,  Mr  Saunders,  121 

Melville,  Major,        .          .  94 

Melville,  Sir  Robert,         .  39 

Mengs,  Jan,     .         .         •  31 

Menie  Gray,     .         .         .  109 

Menteith,  Earl  of,     .         .  54 

Meredith,  Mr  Michael,     .  121 

Merrilies,  Meg,         .         .  103 

Mertoun,  Mr  Basil,  .         .  75 

Mertoun,  Mordaunt,          .  75 

Mervyn,  Mr  and  Mrs,       .  103 

Minna  Troil,     .          .          •  75 

Mist,  Children  of  the,        .  54 

Moffat,  Mabel,          .         .  98 
Mohr,  Elspct,  .         .         .107 

Mohr,  Ilamish  Benn,         .  107 

Mnhr,  Ilamish  MacTavish,  107 

Mon$acla,  Mddle.  /ilia  de,  109 

Mon9ada,  Mathias  de,      .  109 

Moncada,  Richard.   .          .  109 
Monkbarns,   Mr    Oldbuck 

of,  .  .  .  .117 
Monmouth,  Duke  of,  .  67 
Monna  Paula,  ...  5° 
Monoplies,  Richie,  .  .  5° 
Monthcrmcr,  Sir  Guy,  .  5 
Montreville,  Madame  de,  .  109 
Montrosc,  Earl  of.  .  .  54 
Montscrrat.  Conrade,  Mar- 
quis of,  -  .  9 


PAGE 

5 

115 

67 
35 
67 
94 


Morolt,  Dennis, 
Morrison,  Hugh,  of  Glanae, 
Morton,  Henry, 
Morton,  Lord,  . 
Morton,  Mr,     . 
Morton,  Rev.  Mr,     . 
Mountfaufon,  LadyCalista 

of,  ....  9 
Mowbray,  Clara,  .  .  12 1 
Mowbray,  John,  .  .  121 
Muckiebackit,  Saunders,  .  117 
Mucklewraith  (a  fanatic),  .  67 
Mulgrave,  Sir  Miles,  .  54 
Multon,  Sir  Thomas  de,  .  9 
Mumps,  Tib,  .  .  .  103 
Murdockson,  Meg,  .  .  90 
Murray,  Earl  of,  .  35,  39 
Mysie  Ilapper,  .  .  35 


NECBATANUS  (a  dwarf),  .  9 
Neville,  Eveline,  .  .  117 
Neville,  Major,  .  .117 
Nicanor  (a  Greek),  .  .  i 
Nixon,  Cristal,  .  .  98 
Norna  of  the  Fitful  Head,  75 


OCHILTREE,  Edie,  .         .117 

Oldbuck,  Miss  Griselda,   .  117 

Oldbuck,  Mr  Jonathan,  of 

Monkbarns,    .        .  117 

Olifant,  Basil,  ...  67 

Olifaunt,  Nigel,         .         .  50 

Oliver  Cromwell,      .         .  5^ 

Orleans,  Duke  Louis  of,    .  27 

Ormond,  Duke  of,    .          .  62 

Osbaldistone,  Frank,         .  86 

Osbaldistone,  Mr  William,  86 

Osbaldistone,  Rashleigh,  .  86 
Osbaldistone,    Sir    Ililde- 

brand,  ....  86 

Otranto,  Prince  Tancred  of,  i 

Out  ram,  Lance,         .          .  62 
Oxford,  Earl  of,         .          .31 

Owen,  Mr,        ...  86 


PACOLET,  Nicholas, .         .       75 


132 

INDEX 

PAGE                                                                                          PAGE 

Paris,  Brenhilda,  Countess 

Redgauntlet,    Sir    Arthur 

of,         .... 

I 

Darsie, 

98 

Paris,  Count  Robert  of,     . 

i 

Reinold  (a  butler),    . 

5 

Pate  in  Peril,    . 

98 

Rene,  King  of  Provence,  . 

3i 

Paula,  Monna,  . 

50 

Richard  I.,                 .         .  9, 

14 

Paupiah  (a  steward), 

109 

Richard,    Prince,    son    of 

Pavilion  (a  currier),  . 

27 

Henry  II.,     . 

5 

Pearson,  Captain,     . 

58 

Robert,  Count  of  Paris, 

i 

Peebles,  Peter, 

98 

Robert  III.,  of  Scotland,  . 

22 

Pembroke.  Earl  of,   . 

18 

Robertson,  George,  . 

90 

Pembroke,  Mr, 

94 

Robin  Hood,    . 

14 

Penfeather,  Lady  Penelope, 

121 

Rob       Roy       MacGregor 

Perrette,  Dame, 

27 

Campbell, 

86 

Peter,  the  Hermit,    . 

I 

Robsart,  Amy, 

43 

Peveril,  Julian, 

62 

Robsart,  Sir  Hugh,  . 

43 

Peveril,  Lady  Margaret,    . 

62 

Rochecliffe,    Doctor    An- 

Peveril, Sir  Geoffrey, 

62 

thony,    .... 

58 

Phadraick,  Miles,     . 

107 

Ronaldson,  Neil, 

75 

Philip,  Father, 

35 

Rose  Bradwardihe,  . 

94 

Philip  Augustus,  of  France, 

9 

Rose  Flammock, 

5 

Philpson,  John, 

3i 

Rothsay,  David,  Duke  of, 

22 

Pierre,  Maitre,  . 

27 

Rowena,  Lady, 

14 

Plantagenet,  Lady  Edith, 

9 

Rudolph  of  Donnershugel, 

31 

Pleydell,  Mr  Paulus, 

103 

Ruthven  (a  pedlar),  . 

94 

Polwarth,  Alick, 

94 

Ruthven,  Lord, 

39 

Porteous,  Captain,    . 

90 

Poundtext  (a  preacher),     . 

67 

Powheid,  Lazarus,    . 

18      SADDLETREE,  Mr  Bartolini, 

90 

Pretender,  The  Young,      94 

,  98      St  Ronan's,  Laird  of, 

121 

Proudfute,  Oliver,    . 

22 

Saladin,  Sultan, 

9 

Sampson,  Dominie,  . 

103 

Scambester,  Eric. 

75 

QUACKLEBEN,            Doctor 

Schreechwald,  Ital,  . 

3i 

Quentin, 

121       Scotland,  Prince  Royal  of, 

9 

Quentin  Durward,    . 

27      Scots,  Mary  Queen  of, 

39 

Scrogie,      Mr      Peregrine 

Touchwood, 

121 

RALEIGH,  Sir  Walter, 

43 

Scrow  (a  clerk), 

103 

Ramorny,  Sir  John.  . 

22 

Sebastes  (a  recruit),  . 

I 

Ramsay,  David, 

50 

Seelencooper,  Captain, 

IO9 

Ramsay,  Margaret,  . 

5° 

Seyton.  Catherine,     . 

39 

Randal  (a  boatman). 

39 

Seyton,  Henry, 

39 

Ratcliffe,  Jim,  . 

90 

Seyton,  Lord,  . 

39 

Ratcliffe,  "Mr  Hubert, 

82 

Shafton,  Sir  Piercie, 

35 

Ravenswood,  Edgar, 

7i 

Sharpitlaw  (a  constable), 

90 

Raymond,  Count  of  Tou- 

Sheerkohf, Ilderim, 

9 

louse,    .... 

i 

Simon  (a  glover). 

22 

Rebecca  of  York, 

14 

Skurliewhitter,  Andrew,   . 

50 

Redeauntlet,  Lnird  of, 

98       Sludge,  Dick,  . 

43 

Redgauntlet,  Lilias, 

98       Smith,  Wayland, 

43 

INDEX 


133 


Smith,  Will,     . 
Snailsfoot,  Bryce,     .         . 
Solmes  (a  valet), 
Solsgroves,  Rev.  Neliemiali, 
Spitfire  (a  page), 
Staunton,  George,     . 
Staunton,  Sir  Edmund, 
Steenson,  Willie, 
Stewart,  Francis, 
Strauchan  (a  squire), 
Strumpfer,  Nicholas, 
Sturmthal,  Melchior, 
Suddlecliop,  Benjamin, 
Suddlechop,  Danie  Ursula, 
Swertha  (a  servant), 
Sylvan  (an  ourang-outang) 


TACKET,  Martin,     . 

Tacket,  Tibb,  . 

Taffril,  Lieutenant,  . 

Talbot,  Colonel, 

Tancred, Prince  of  Otranto, 

Tatius,  Achilles, 

Templars,  Grand  Master 
of  the,  .... 

Theodoric  of  Engaddi, 

Thornton,  Captain,  . 

Tippoo  Saib,    . 

Tod,  Gabriel,   . 

Toison  d'Or  (a  herald),     . 

Tomahourich,  Janet  of, 

Tombs,  Knight  of  the, 

Tomkins,  Joseph,     . 

Topham,  Charles,     . 

Torquil  of  the  Oak,  . 

Touchwood,  Mr  Peregrine 
Scrogie, 

Toulouse,  Count  Ray- 
mond of,  . 

Tower,  Governor  of  the,  . 

Toxartis  (a  Scythian), 

Traobois  (a  lodging-house 
keeper), 

Trapbois,  Martha,    . 

Tresham,  Richard,  . 

Tressilian,  Master,   . 

Tristran,  I'llermite, 

Troil,  Brenda,  . 

Troil,  Magnus, 


PACE 

PAGE 

62 

Troil,  Minna,  . 

75 

75 

Troil,  Ulla,       . 

75 

121 

Trotter,  Nelly, 

121 

62 

Trumbull,  Tarn, 

98 

5* 

Tuck,  Friar,     . 

14 

90 

Tunstall,  Francis, 

5° 

90 

Turnbull,  Michael,  . 

18 

98 

Tyre,  Archbishop  of, 

9 

67 

Tyrie,  Rev.  Michael, 

107 

9 

Tyrrel,  Francis,         . 

121 

75 

31 

So 

ULRICA,  Dame, 

14 

5° 

Una  (a  servant) 

94 

75 

Ursel,  Zedekias, 

i 

i 

Ursula,  Sister, 

18 

35 

VALENCE,  Sir  Aymer  de, 

18 

35 

Vanbeest  Brown, 

103 

117 

Varney,  Richard, 

43 

94 

Vaudemond,  Ferrand  de,  . 

3i 

i 

Vaughan,  Basil, 

75 

i 

Vaughan,  Clement,  . 

75 

Vaux,  Sir  Thomas  de,  of 

9,  14 

Gilsland, 

9 

9 

Vehemique,           Tribunal 

86 

Knights  and  Burghers  of, 

3i 

109 

Veilchen,  Annette,    . 

3i 

103 

Vere,  Arthur  de, 

3i 

27 

Vere,  Isabel,    . 

82 

"5 

Vere,  Mr  Richard,   . 

82 

18      Vermandois,  Count  de, 

i 

58      Vernon,  Diana, 

86 

62       Vernon,  Sir  Frederick, 

86 

22 

Vich    Ian    Vohr,    Fergus 

Maclvor, 

94 

121 

Vincent,  Jenkin, 

50 

Violante  (an  attendant),    . 

i 

I 

Vipont,  Ralph  de,     .          . 

14 

50 

I 

WAKEFIEI.P,  Harry, 

H5 

5« 

Wales,  Prince  Charles  of, 

5° 

50 

Wallenrode,  Earl, 

9 

109 

Walton,  Sir  John  de, 

18 

43 

Warnba  (a  jester),     . 

14 

27 

Warden,  Rev.  Henry,        35 

.  39 

75 

Wardour,    Captain    Regi- 

75 

nald,    .... 

117 

134 

Wardour,  Isabella,  . 
Wardour,  Sir  Arthur, 
Waverley,  Edward,  . 
Waverley,  Miss  Rachel,    . 
Waverley,  Richard, 
Waverley,  Sir  Everard, 
Weatherport,  Captain, 
Westburnflat,  Willie 

Graeme  of,   . 
Wildfire,  Madge,      . 
Wildrake,  Captain  Roger, 
Wilson,  Andrew, 
Wilson,  Dame  Alison, 
Winterblossom,Mr  Phillip, 
Witherington,  General,     . 


PAGIi 

Witherington,  Mrs  .  .  109 

Wittenbold,  Captain,  .  67 

Woodcock,  Adam,    .  .  39 

Woodville,  Lord,      .  .  113 


YEI.LOWI.EY,  Barbara,      .       75 
Yellowley,  Triptolemus,  .       75 


ZAMET  (a  gipsy),      .        .  27 
Zarah  (a  dwarf),        .         .  62 
Zimmerman,  Adam,          .  31 
Zosimus     (Greek      Patri- 
arch)   ....  i 


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